Burton Group announces Second Annual Conference on Network Computing; Conference designed to create dialogue between leading network vendors, users, and application developers.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1994--The Burton Group Tuesday announced that it has set the date and location for The Burton Group Conference on Network Computing 95 (BG95).

BG95 is a vendor-independent forum in which leading network vendors, users, and application developers can meet and candidly discuss the issues facing the network industry, and move toward solutions to key problems.

To be held July 9-12 in Colorado Springs, Colo., BG95 is unique in several ways. First, and unlike other conferences and trade shows, BG95 is designed to be completely vendor-neutral. The conference is sponsored solely by The Burton Group. No vendor contributions are accepted. Second, The Burton Group is investing a great deal of effort before the conference to ensure that it is not just another opportunity for vendors to repeat their marketing pitches.

"Every networking vendor is in the middle of a significant transition, bringing out new products to meet the rapidly evolving needs of users," says Craig Burton, principal of The Burton Group. "We're hosting BG95 because in such transition periods, it's critical for leading users and vendors of networking technology to clearly communicate, outside of the harried atmosphere of a trade show or hype-ridden vendor events. At BG95, customers and developers will have direct access to the decision makers in today's leading networking companies."

Each of the three days of BG95 is devoted to a particular issue. While the final agenda has yet to be set, topics under consideration include desktop management and the future of the Desktop Management Interface (DMI); object-oriented application development architectures, including OLE and OpenDoc; the emerging client-server messaging architectures, including both Microsoft Exchange and the Lotus Communications Server; and the advent of distributed data stores, which promise to replace the file server environments of today with object-oriented, distributed environments. The Burton Group will make additional announcements as the agenda and speakers for BG95 are set.

The Burton Group, founded in 1989 by Judith and Craig Burton, is an information services company specializing in emerging network computing issues. The company addresses the need for comprehensive analysis and understanding of complex networking issues through its information service products, The Burton Group Report and The Burton Group News Analysis. The company also provides a forum in which network users and vendors can come together to address networking issues in the annual Burton Group Conference on Network Computing. To register call: 800/824-9924.

CONTACT: The Burton Group

Doug Allinger, 800/824-9924