1992 Developers Competition Update

"Fire All of Your Guns at Once!"

120 Software developers from all over the world will travel to
North Carolina on October 9th and 10th, to compete for cash and
software prizes.

       $10,000 in cash prizes.  $150,000 in software/hardware prizes.

Sponsored by:  Artful Applications, SofDesign International,
Computer Associates, Sinc/Liant, Data Based Advisor Magazine, Tri-
Link, Midnight Engineering Magazine, Allen Marketing, Whitehall
Printing, MDBS, DataEase International, Microsoft and Borland. 
Audit services provided by Ernst and Young.  Call and ask for a
copy of the current prize list of over $100,000 in software.

Competing:  At this time we have teams which will be using: 
Clipper, Advanced Revelation, "C", Cobol, FlexGen, OMNIS, FilePro,
Dataease, KnowledgMan, FoxPro, TAS, System Builder, Advanced
dbMASTER, Oracle, 4th Dimension, Basic 2.0, DataEase, Paradox,
dBASE IV, R:BASE, Clarion, Magic, GenSys 2, Blinker, Funcky,
NetLib, Zachary, GRID, Artful 2, BecknerLib, Grumpfish, AllClip,
Tlink, R&R, Stage, and UI2 and many more!  

Panel Discussion:  Top representatives from Computer Associates
(Dominique Laborde), Cobol (Dave McFarland), Microsoft, and Borland
will speak on trends for software developers.  User Groups: 
Regional user groups will be meeting.  For example: Brian Russell
and Savannah Brentnall will speak at the Clipper users group
meeting.  Get in the action by staging your own local competition
before the national competition.  Send the winner!  Concurrent On-
Line Competition on CompuServe:  Next best thing to being there. 
This allows those who can't travel or spend the time to compete
against other on-line competitors to win cash and prizes.

Held in conjunction with Software 92:  A business seminar with
workshops for matters relating to software: legal, marketing,
personnel, exporting and many others.  Sponsored by the largest
entrepreneurial council in the US.  Sponsors can make the best use
of their time by giving a seminar or user group presentation at
Software 92 and then exhibiting at the competition.

For more information on the competition, download DCMP92.ZIP from
the CompuServe DBA forum, Library 1.  It contains the proceedings
from the 1991 competition, rules, last year's competition, plus
everything else about the competition.

P.S.  Call 919-383-9749 now if you want to compete.  Applications
for the competition are being accepted.  Contact the 1992
Developers Competition at 1816 Front Street, Suite 130, Durham, NC
27705.