YARC's CEO to Chair COMDEX session ``OS Shootout, Windows vs. Linux''.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). Fall 2000 CAMARILLO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2000 Dr. Trevor Marshall, chairman and chief executive officer of YARC YARC You're Absolutely Right, Commander (military slang) Systems Corp. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :YARC), will chair the "OS Shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. -- Windows vs. Linux vs. Other" at the upcoming COMDEX Fall 2000 Conference in Las Vegas. The COMDEX/Fall 2000 technology conference will feature top industry experts in over 100 sessions, focusing on evaluating technology investments, building network infrastructure, implementing an effective Internet/Intranet strategy and other critical business and IT topics. The "OS Shootout" forms part of the "Extreme Knowledge" Core Conference and will be held in Room 319 at the MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. Grand from 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 13. The speakers will be John Terpstra, Scot Hacker, and Kim Cheung. The session is designed to give attendees a solid appreciation of the factors inherent in OS selection, including the movement towards Open Source. John Terpstra is the Vice President of Community Relations at TurboLinux Inc. He is responsible for global communication and interaction with the Open Source community and Linux user groups on TurboLinux's behalf. Terpstra is also tasked with protecting the Open Source nature of the TurboLinux distribution and ensuring that all TurboLinux patches are contributed back to the community. Terpstra serves on the Linux Standards Base, the Linux Professional Institute and is on the Board of Directors of Linux International for TurboLinux. A member of the steering committee for the Linux Internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation Initiative, Terpstra is most recognized as a founding member of the Samba samba Ballroom dance of Brazilian origin, popularized in the U.S. and Europe in the 1940s. Danced to music in ⁴⁄₄ time with a syncopated rhythm, the dance is characterized by simple forward and backward steps and tilting, rocking body movements. Team, whose software enables Linux computers to network to machines running Microsoft Windows. Scot Hacker is the author of the "BeOS Bible" and is a columnist for BYTE.com. Hacker's column, "The Be View" covers OS technologies ranging from from Internet appliances to advanced workstations. Kim Cheung is an expert on commercial application of OS/2 technology, having been a principal with TouchVoice Corp. since 1989. Recently Cheung founded Serenity Systems, which uses OS/2 technology to roll out the desktop to users over a network. About COMDEX COMDEX/Fall 2000, Nov. 13 - 17, 2000, in Las Vegas, is the global IT marketplace where buyers, sellers and influencers go to do business and make technology decisions. This year COMDEX has developed a customer-centric initiative that will concentrate on segmenting everything from conference programs to floor plans in order to better serve the specific needs of the buyers and sellers and to enable discreet community development. Detailed information, including conference schedules, keynotes and exhibitor lists, is available at www.comdex.com. About TurboLinux (http://www.turbolinux.com) TurboLinux Inc. is a leader in Linux-based software solutions for Internet and enterprise computing infrastructure. Founded in 1992, TurboLinux has received $100 million in private funding from more than 30 global computing and investment giants, including August Capital, BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , Compaq, Dell, Deutsche Banc, Fujitsu, H&Q Asia Pacific, Hitachi, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Novell, Oracle, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. and Toshiba. TurboLinux has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The registration statement has not yet become effective. About TouchVoice (http://www.touchvoicecorp.com) TouchVoice Corp. is a leading developer and vendor of Computer Telephony Applications, using OS/2 technology to deliver responsive, scalable, reliable, and commercial voice mail, call routing equipment, and management of satellite phone traffic for commercial carriers. About YARC (http://www.yarc.com/) YARC has developed proprietary LINUX software that integrates printing technologies with the Internet. YARC's servers can receive images over the Internet and can be configured and upgraded from any standard Internet browser. YARC's proprietary implementation of Adobe Systems' Postscript Printer Description PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files are created by vendors to describe the entire set of features and capabilities available for their PostScript printers. A PPD also contains the PostScript code (commands) used to invoke features for the print job. Language (PDL See page description language. 1. PDL - Page Description Language. 2. PDL - Program Design Language. 3. PDL - Push Down List. 4. PDL - Dave Lebling, one of the co-authors of Zork. ) is used to process computer images so they can be transferred to a printing engine, across the Internet, without any loss of detail or color quality. YARC's Internet technology enables a direct link between the graphic artist and the printed output. This workflow ensures optimal color quality and greater productivity than typical competitive Internet workflows, where a broker is used to interface between the graphic artist and the printing press operators. Disclaimers COMDEX, COMDEX/Fall and associated design marks and logos are trademarks owned or used under license by Key3Media Events Inc., and may be registered in the United States and other countries. Other names mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners. 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