From: S.F.Feather@poda.wins.icl.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: ODA Seminar
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:36:21 GMT







         Benefit from ODA now!
         
         Learn about the tools, techniques and opportunities that Open 
         Document Architecture offers your business.
         
                       A Seminar Hosted by the ODA Consortium
                                          
                                 November 17th 1992
         
                                   Hotel Pullman
         
                                Versailles, France 
         
         
         
         Who should attend?
         
         The seminar is for developers, Information managers/DP 
         professionals and education establishments who are concerned with 
         document interchange, filing or implementing the Open Document 
         Architecture (ODA) in applications, policies or training 
         programmes in their organisation.
         
         What can you learn?
         
         In addition to information on the ODA Consortium, the current 
         status of ODA and the toolkit, you can learn about:
         
         *    Acquiring the Toolkit  
          
              - Early use programme   
         
              - Commercial use of the Toolkit
         
         *    Using the Toolkit      
         
              - How it can be used to develop applications
         
         *   Relationship of the Toolkit to other standards  
         
              - Standardization of Application Programming Interfaces       
              (APIs)
         
         * Next steps      
         
              - FOD 36 API    
         
              - Toolkit development roadmap
         
         Why should you attend?
         
         The one day seminar will demonstrate that now is the time to 
         implement ODA. The ODA Consortium will discuss business benefits 
         and opportunities created by the availability of a comprehensive 
         Toolkit.The seminar fee includes an information package, all 
         refreshments, lunch and a cocktail reception after the seminar.
         
         Action Line  :  Fax your completed application to the Consortium 
         on +32 2 774 9690.
         
         For more information fax, or call on +32 2 774 9623.  
         





         The Ideal is realised........
         
         The ideal would be:
         to transmit documents of every kind
         ...text, facsimile and graphics
         ...complete with all their attributes
         ...from screen to screen
         ...from any kind of system, proprietary or open, to any other
         ...from anywhere in the world to anywhere else
         ...from reading and understanding
         ...for short or long term storage
         ...for processing and further editing
         ...for re-transmission and for printing. 
         
         That ideal will be realised.
         
         The ODA Consortium
         Six of the world's major computer companies have formed the Open 
         Document Architecture Consortium to promote the ODA standard and 
         to provide the means of achieving it.
         
         The companies are: Bull SA, DEC, IBM, ICL PLC, Siemens Nixdorf 
         Informationssyteme (SNI) and Unisys.
         
         Their purpose is first:
         To sponsor the development of a Toolkit that will help in the 
         production of suitable ODA applications for retro-fit into 
         existing systems and for incorporation into new systems.
         
         From the beginning, the Toolkit will be openly licenced to anyone 
         wanting to develop product which uses the ODA standard.
         
         





         
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          *  Send me a copy of the API specification @ FF1500   FF______
         
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         o Invoice my company/organisationPlease return (by 10th October 
         1992) to: The ODA Consortium, Avenue Marcel Thiry 204, 1200 
         Brussels, Belgium.  
         
         Cancellation.
         
         Refunds will be made  for cancellations received in writing or by 
         fax by October 28th 1992, but will be subject to a cancellation 
         and administration charge of 30% of the total amount. No refunds 
         can be made after this date. A substitute delegate is always 
         welcome at no additional charge.  

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