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IP: "Confronting Microsoft" panel at Stanford
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:57:48 +0800
It is a great conference. If I was not in Hong Kong I would be there Dave Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 19:08:04 -0700 (PDT) From: John Wharton <jwharton () netcom com> To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: "Confronting Microsoft" panel at Stanford Dave-- Forgive the shameless self-promotion here, but it occurs to me that some of your Silicon Valley readers might like to know about the "Hot Chips" conference being held at Stanford next week, 8/16 through 8/18. Hot Chips is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Microcomputers and Microprocessors; this is the tenth year it's been held. A full program and registration information may be found at: "http://www.hotchips.org". One particularly promising session, if I say so myself, is a rather late addition to the program, not listed in the early promotional brochures. This would be a panel session I'm running Monday night, 8/17, from 7:30 until 9:00. The topic of the panel is "Confronting the Microsoft Challenge", and I'm quite frankly astounded at the qualifications and collective experience of the panelists we were able to bring together. An description of panel goals and panelist qualifications is attached. I'm sure this is going to be a lot of fun. --John Wharton ####################################################################### ####################################################################### Hot Chips Conference, Stanford University Monday evening, 8/17, 7:30 until 9:00 Panel: Confronting the Microsoft Challenge =================================== Moderator: John Wharton Applications Research As Microsoft broadens the scope of its products and service, it has begun to face competition (or finds itself under attack, depending on your perspective) on many fronts, not just in operating systems and application software, but in internet services, anti-trust litigation, electronic commerce, and even consumer appliances and high-tech toys. Linux and Be offer new alternatives to the Windows OS, Netscape and Java provide OS-independent application platforms, and the Palm Pilot has established a huge, new, non-Microsoft computing paradigm -- a situation Redmond seems determined to derail. Civil lawsuits are being waged by Sun, Caldera, and others, and antitrust charges have been leveled by the Department of Justice, the FTC, various states' Attorneys General, and many -- perhaps most -- foreign governments. Even consumer advocate Ralph Nader has now joined the fray, lobbying that the public interest would be better served by increased competition in the software arena. Can Microsoft be stopped? /Should/ it be? Where, if anywhere, might the company be vulnerable? What strategies should its competitors follow to improve their chance of success? Monday night's panel will try to address these issues. The panelists represent a wealth of experience in the venture capital, business, legal, and software fields today, and bring with them the lessons they've learned in trying to deal with Microsoft in the past. Panelists: Robert Carr Managing Director and Venture Capitalist Sofinnova, Inc. (former CTO of Go, Inc. and Vice President of Autodesk) "Thriving in a Microsoft World" Donna Dubinsky Cofounder and CEO JD Technology, Inc (former President and CEO of Palm Computing and Cofounder and Vice President of Claris) Ian Feinberg Litigation Partner Intellectual Property and Technology Group Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich "Can Antitrust Laws Encourage Innovation While Distinguishing It From and Preventing Predation?" Tom Rolander Founder and Chief Technical Officer PG Soft, Inc. (former Director of Engineering, Digital Research Inc. and Project Manager at Novell) "Deja Vu All Over Again" Bryan Sparks Chief Executive Officer Caldera, Inc. ####################################################################### #######################################################################
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