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From: davidb@gemstone.com (David Box)
Subject: Toronto/Ottawa: FREE GemStone Technical Seminars
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MAKE YOUR SMALLTALK APPLICATIONS PULL THEIR OWN WEIGHT

At this FREE GemStone Technical Seminar:
Application Partitioning with Object Technology

WE'LL SHOW YOU: 

How to partition your Smalltalk applications so that every part of
your client/server system gives you top performance on the operations
that it does best. 

YOU'LL LEARN HOW AN OBJECT APPLICATION SERVER CAN:

*Offload compute-intensive operations from your client applications,
letting the client provide the best performance and responsiveness to
the individual user. 
          
*Minimize network traffic by executing operations on large collections
and sending only the results to clients. 
          
*Centralize business objects, allowing multiple applications to share
common objects or application frameworks, letting developers maintain
classes in one place, and providing immediate, concurrent updates for
all applications. 
          
*Enable users to share business objects in real time through
state-of-the-art concurrency control, security, and transaction
control mechanisms. 
          
*Increase system performance by optimizing access to legacy and
relational databases at the server level. 

...AND HOW TO GET: 
     
*Faster, more cost-effective development and maintenance 
          
*Accurate, real-time business modeling 
          
*Availability of accurate business information to thousands of users,
enterprisewide, with excellent system performance 
          
*Integration of legacy and relational data storage into your object
oriented client/server system without sacrificing performance or
maintainability 

AND A CHANCE TO WIN A FREE GEMSTONE DEVELOPMENT LICENSE AND TRAINING:

At the seminar, we will be giving away one free development license
for the GemStone object application server plus an enrollment in the
3-day "Introduction to GemStone" developers course. All attendees
will receive our latest white papers and other technical materials.
Youll learn more about how to partition your business applications
for top performance, integrate your existing databases into your
enterprise network, and keep business information available quickly
and reliably to thousands of concurrent users. 

Seminar Agenda

8:00 - 8:30am -- Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 - - Introduction
8:45 - 9:45 - - Partitioning Client/Server Smalltalk Applications
9:45 - 10:00 - - Break
10:00 - 10:45 - - Application Partitioning at Bell Sygma
10:45 - 11:45 - - Architecture of the GemStone Object Application
		Server
11:45 - 12:00 - - GemStone Product Preview for 1996
12:00 - 12:15 - - Conclusion 


YOU'LL HEAR FROM THESE INDUSTRY EXPERTS: 

CHRIS RABER - Chris is a consultant with GemStone Systems, Inc. With
over 12 years experience in building software products and mission
critical information systems, Chris has an extensive understanding of
the application development process and related technologies. His
enterprise customers include Ford, Chrysler, Caterpillar, and Reynolds
Metals, with a focus on manufacturing control systems. 

Chris holds a BA in Computational Mathematics from Albion College. His
technical skills include GemStone, Smalltalk, C and C++, relational
databases, UNIX, VMS and Windows/NT. Chris also has extensive
experience in design methodologies and project process management. 

IAN GILCHRIST - Ian is a programming consultant with ObjectByDesign,
Inc., an OO consulting firm specializing in Smalltalk and GemStone
applications. He began programming in Smalltalk as a graduate student
in the early 1980s. He has spent his career exploring the power of
object technology, with a focus on the use of Smalltalk. 

Ian has developed applications for Digital Equipment of Canada, Bell
Northern Research, Monenco Ltd., and Bell Sygma, gaining broad
experience in data processing and telephony applications. He has a B.
Comm. (Hons) and an MSc. in Integrated Systems Science from Carleton
University, Ottawa, Ontario. Ian is currently working on a
surveillance system for correlating network alarms. 

SEMINAR DATES AND LOCATIONS

May 15, 1996
Toronto Hilton
145 Richmond Street West 
Toronto, ON M5H 2L2
Phone: 416/869-3456
Fax: 416/869-3187

May 16, 1996
The Westin Hotel 11 Colonel By Drive 
Ottawa, ON K1N 9H4 
Phone: 613/560-7000
Fax: 613/234-5396 

Register Now...Seating is limited 

*Call us toll free at 1-888-276-6187 or direct at 1-503-629-8383 for
fast registration 
          
*Fax us at 1-503-690-7205

*On-line at http://www.gemstone.com under the "Events" directory
                  
*E-mail us at seminar@gemstone.com

