1992 Developer's Competition
                       "Fire All Your Guns at Once!"

The files on this diskette give complete information about the 1992
Developer's Competition.  They are being distributed to software
and database vendors, 3rd party developers, user groups and any
one else that can help publicize this event.  You are free to
include these files in your newsletters, on bulletin boards, or to
distribute them in any way you choose.  The file DevComp.Zip
contains all of these files in a format suitable for upload to a
BBS.  The file should be named "1992 Developer's Competition"

This diskette includes the following files:

***NEW AS OF APRIL 20th***

March92.txt            Update of the event as of March (plus or minus a few
                       weeks), includes overview, current competitors and
                       sponsors.

soft92.txt             Tentative list of topics for Software 92.

Applicnt.txt           1992 Developer's Competition Application Form.
                       ***NOW AVAILABLE***, and officially accepting
                       applications.

***END OF NEW FILES***

Overview.txt           Overview of the event, What is it?  Why should I
                       compete?  How to Register?

BBS.txt                Notice about the competition suitable for posting
                       on a bulletin board.

UserGrp.txt            How a user group can host a "feeder" event, or
                       "mini" competition.  We hope to have at least 10
                       user groups conduct their own local developer
                       competitions and send the winner(s) to the national
                       competition.

News.txt               Information about the competition suitable for
                       insertion in a user group newsletter, a database
                       publication, or a database vendor's newsletter.

Sponinfo.txt           Benefits and reasons for sponsors to participate. 
                       Regardless of whether you choose to help this event
                       by active participation, you should consider doing
                       whatever you can to see that teams that use your
                       products are competing in the competition.  See
                       news.txt for other ideas on this.

Proceed.txt            The Proceedings from the 1991 Developer's
                       Competition.  This information is extremely helpful
                       and contains the following information:  Databased
                       Advisor Article, Overview, Schedule of Events,
                       System Specification, Judge's Scoring Sheet, Rules,
                       Scoring, Prizes, Application Profile, Company
                       profiles of competitors, judges, press, and
                       sponsors, final rankings, tools used summary, and
                       evaluation results.

Survey.txt             Results of the evaluation forms that were filled out
                       after the 1991 Developer's Competition.  This should
                       help you to determine the quality of the event, and
                       to give you some ideas if you are considering
                       hosting a similar competition.