Redwood City Ð NeXT and Digital Consulting have announced the 1994 East Coast NEXTSTEP Developer Conference to be held January 24Ð26, 1994, at the Sheraton Washington in Washington, DC. The event is strictly for developer training and not a full-scale trade show like NeXTWORLD Expo, still planned for mid-1994 in San Francisco.
"We found that there was so much demand for information about object-oriented technology that it made sense to have complementary conferences on each coast," said Karen Steele, NeXT's director of marketing communications.
Monday's schedule features four different, optional half-day sessions that attendees register for individually. The other two days feature the main body of the conference, with four program tracks, a lab, and general sessions.
The four tracks are: NeXT in the Marketplace, a management overview of technical services and development opportunities offered with NeXTSTEP; The Art of Design, which focuses object, application, and system design using the object-oriented paradigm; A Closer Look, which looks at NEXTSTEP object kits and distributed objects; and Hardware is Inevitable, a look at hardware-purchasing, administration, and configuration issues.
The sessions on Monday cost $160 each, in advance, and $200 each on-site. The two-day conference costs $545 in advance and $595 at the door. Registration and information is available from DCI at 508/470 3880 or 800/ 767-2336.
Microsoft is planning an NT developers gathering in Washington six weeks prior to NeXT's event. "This provides developers a better alternative for object-oriented education in DC this spring," Steele said.