Just when it appeared dance cards were full for the upcoming show season this autumn, yet another Unix exhibition has been put up on the agenda. This one’s a regional shin-dig called Networking/Unix ’90 set for September 24 and 25 in Atlanta, Georgia. The sponsors are Datapro, the old-line market researchers, and Inforum, one of those new-fangled techno shopping malls where companies like AT&T and IBM set up boutiques. The pair have set up a user-directed programme, and exhibitors include firms like Santa Cruz Operation, Anderson Computing, AT&T, BellSouth, Compaq, Data General, IBM, Sun, Informix and Ingres. While not expecting huge crowds initially, the organisers intend to repeat the experience in April next year, shooting for bigger things. A by-product could be that it draws traffic away from Unix Solutions and Unix Expo both scheduled for October, the first in California, the second in New York. Inforum, which aims to get big in the seminar and market research business, wants to help major companies write up their requirements and then trot appropriate technology providers by.
