Here are afew more details regarding the Networking Conference that I sent email about last month. -johnj Sun Microsystems NETWORK CONFERENCE, Atlanta , GA, October 17-19, 1989 ( #202 October 17-19, 1989 Atlanta, GA ) Conference Description: *********************** In response to the demand for up-to-date information on the latest developments in computing, Sun will be offering a new series of technical conferences. These conferences will begin this fall and cover current issues in Windows and Graphics, Networking, SPARC, and Software Engineering Technologies. The conferences will cover specific technical areas important to the entire industry. Information will be provided on how these disciplines are evolving, and how developers can leverage this technology now and in the future. These technical conferences will be presented by engineering specialists who will provide perspective on the current and evolving state of technology in the marketplace. Developers will have the opportunity to see current technology in action, hear how others have used the technology successfully, and learn key information to make well informed decisions. Objectives: ********** 1. To promote Sun's Total Networking Strategy World Wide Sun has the best networking story in the industry 2. To present the tools Sun has available To sell Sun's products 3. To sell distributed applications To encourage ISVs to incorporate our products into their applications Audience: ******** The Sun Technology Conferences are targeted at software developers and engineering management. Length of conference: ******************** To present thorough technical information, 3 days seems to be a minimum. With lunch and breaks, we estimate that there will be 5-6 hours of presentations per day. Topics to present: ***************** Network Conferences: Sun's Total Networking Story Day One: A Vision of Network Computing 1. Introduction/Agenda 15 min 2. Networking Industry Direction: 2 hrs Where We Are, Where We're Going Session Developer: Dave Fowler - Current Network Environments (Introduce case studies) - Industry Trend: Networking as a Competive Advantage - Problems/Opportunities: Integration or Intimidation (follow through relative to case study) - Technology Trends: Mixed Blessing - The Role of Standards - The Next Generation.....for developers ..for users 3. SunNet Story: Heterogeneous is our Business 1 hr Session Developer: Lou Delzompo - SunNet- The Overall Networking Strategy and Philosophy - ONC: Defacto Industry Standard - History of ONC and the Licensing - Current state of ONC implementations (vendor and users) - SunLink: Integrating Industry and defacto standards 4. Sun Networking Vision 1 1/2 hr Session Developer: Brian Craig - Distributed Applications - New and Future Network Services - A realistic migration to standards: ONC today ISO tomorrow 5.Turning Problems to Opportunities 1 hr Session Developer: Fleet Hill (address the case studies with Sun networking solutions) 6. End of Day One: Licensing BOF 1 hr (Eric Radman and Felix Litman) Q & A with Panel of Networking Experts 30 min *************************************************************************** Day Two and Three Content Manager: Sally Ahnger The goal of the two days is to convince a fairly technical audience that Sun has whizzy networking. We imagine that we are talking to programmers, their managers, Sun TSE's, and technically oriented marketing people from ISV's and large end-users primarily. The overall framework is on day 2 to talk about the tools that are available for achieving distributed computing and on day 3 to talk about what makes up a distributed computing environment. Day 2 Distribute your data 75 minutes Session Developer: Chris Silveri NFS, heterogeneous implementation, Lock Manager, secure nfs, Automounter, AutoCad example Distribute your CPU usage 30 minutes Session Developer: Steve Nahm Rex, Distributed Make example Distribute your User Interface 75 minutes Session Developer: Amy Christen Network windows. [This does not include Open Look user interface or toolkits, just the distributed windows story]. Distribute your Application 2 1/2 hours Session Developer: Mark Stein and Brian Pawlowski RPC, secure rpc, rpcgen, future protocol compilers Day Two Total: 5 1/2 hrs ************************************************************************** Day 3 RPC Application Stories 60 minutes Session Developer: Sally Ahnger How different problems were solved with RPC. Examples will be from in and outside Sun. Sun examples include NSE and the Support Expert System. Directory Services 30 minutes Session Developer: Brian Pawlowski (may be cancelled) How applications can be located and can locate others Network Management 75 minutes Session Developer: Steve Nahm How applications can be written to be managed and to manage others. NETlicense 45 minutes Session Developer: Sally Ahnger How applications can be licensed on the network. Mail 45 minutes Session Developer: Mark Stein How applications can access mail systems. It is still to be decided which mail system will be covered. It is desirable to cover only one. Conference Summary 30 min Day Three Total: 5 1/4 hrs Each day has an intro/agenda period first and a Q & A period last. Each topic includes 5-15 mins for questions. Each of the above topics will address the following issues: Motivation: examples of what problem is solved by this product and why someone would want it. Programmatic Interface: the functionality that is available to the programmer and how to use it. Also, how much control over the process does the programmer have. This does not cover the API in detail, i.e. library calls are not spelled out. Architecture: how the product works. Administration: what has to be done on a network that has this product. This will not cover how it is administered, rather what impact it has on administration. Note: We decided not to include NETdisk on Days 2 and 3. It should be mentioned on day 1 as an example of Sun's being ahead of the industry in diskless operation.