1995 Technical Conference Review

Intro

This was the smallest XTC since the earliest conferences, with slightly less than 400 people in attendance (including speakers and X Consortium staff). Besides the fact that software conference attendance in general is down, several factors are relevant.

There were no major announcements from the Consortium this year.
X is mainstream now, and people are moving on to more "cutting edge" technologies. Also, information is far more widely available now from other sources, such as O'Reilly & Associates' X series.
Other conferences are available for X in general, and for specific key technologies (such as CDE).

While the focus was as much hardcore X this year as in the past, it was still a very good conference, and it's a shame it was as small as it was. Perhaps being in a different climate next year will help.

Hopefully, several of the technologies discussed at this year's conference (HBX, D11, loadable servers) will appear in R7, soon.

Last updated: 10 July 1996

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