Software Development Village at Ifabo 2000

Call for entries - 7th Object Application Awards - Deadline March 3

Vienna (pts010/16.02.2000/10:47)

LogOn Technology Transfer, together with Messe Wien, is proud to announce the "Software Development Village", a new pavilion at the Ifabo Trade Show, taking place April 12-15, 2000 at the Vienna Fairgrounds.

With the Software Development Village, organized by LogOn, Ifabo offers for the first time an exclusive Business-to-Business section that combines the most important areas of software development under one roof: Java,Linux, Objects and Web Technologies.

For the leading providers of products and services in the fields of Java, Linux, Objects and Web Technologies the Software Development Village is the place where they can meet the software developer community in Austria.

A highlight within the Software Development Village will be the announcement
of the winners and finalists of the 7th Object Application Awards.

The Object Application Awards is a program designed to honor successful object-oriented custom applications. Dr. Richard Soley, Chairman of the Object Management Group, will be the master of ceremony.

To Submit to the Awards:
The Awards application form can be downloaded via Web at
http://www.ltt.de/ifabo/awards-welcome.html; Deadline: March 3, 2000.

Award winners and finalists in the 1999 program included among others:
ASCOM Autelca, The European Space Agency (ESOC), GMD Fokus, Hitachi
Ltd., SGZ Bank and TLC Transport Logistik (a Deutsche Bahn company).

An international panel of judges, chaired by Professor Roberto Zicari at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main and LogOn, will select the winners and finalists.

Further jury members are:
Michael Barnes, Program Director International, META Group (UK)
Dr. Hendrik Berndt, Chief Technology Officer of TINA-C (USA)
Robert Bertschi, Head of IT Strategy Development, Zurich Financial
Services (CH)
Anastasius Gavras, EURESCOM GmbH (D)
William R. Hoffmann, President, Object Management Group (USA)
Ing. Carlo Mazza, Director IT, European Space Agency ESOC (D)
Dr. Thomas Neumann, Senior Manager, SMS Corp. (D)
Dr. Remo Pareschi, Director R&D, Telecom Italia (I)
Dr. Richard Mark Soley, Chairman and CEO, Object Management Group (USA)
Philippe Kahn, original founder of Borland International (US)
Paul Timmers, Program Director, European Commision (B)

Further information about the Software Development Village and the
Object Application Awards is available at http://www.ltt.de/ifabo.html

If you are interested to take part at the Village, please contact our
team. They will be happy to help you:

Christiane Sattler
Managing Director LogOn
Email: sattler@ltt.de
Tel +49 61 73 - 95 58 - 53 (end)