Set in the middle of the brutal La Defense office tower ghetto created to protect the old heart of Paris from the steel and concrete vandals, under the shadow of President Mitterrand’s recently-completed new monument to himself, La Convention Unix 1990 had all the outward signs of a Unix market moving rapidly along with the rest of the industry: it was at least twice as big as last year’s affair, and most of the major Unix manufacturers were represented – with software firms like Informix, Ingres, Unify and Uniplex taking the biggest stands, but users were largely missing; the laid-back affair generally lacked hustle and bustle and manufacturers, including some who had made a trip to the show from the UK, were openly disappointed at the missing masses; reports from the show p5.
