Hi, Everyone, My trip report from the Microsoft Tech Ed 2000 Conference in early June is out. Attended by 11,000 people and held in Orlando, Tech Ed 2000 is the first of several Tech Ed conferences held by Microsoft this year (I think there will be a total of 14, with an estimated total attendance of 35,000 software developers). The conference I attended included 250+ technical sessions, a Microsoft pavilion (where you could meet with members of the various product development teams and discuss the products, watch demos, etc), about 300 vendors, and a variety of other events. The trip report, about 50M bytes in size, includes many of the presentations (in Powerpoint) and links to the rest. I've placed a fairly large section into the report on the impact of Microsoft on our culture and community. There's a lot of material on the collaborations that have formed, and speeches by Bill Gates at the Government Leaders Conference, the CEO Summit, and several other events. I think this serves to show how far reaching the Microsoft collaborations and partnerships have become, and I feel we have even more reason as a community to join in with collaborations such as the ones reported in this paper. I'm glad to see that SIGAda 2000 has several sessions on interfacing Ada with Microsoft technologies. With Windows 2000 running IT systems on Aircraft Carriers now, this is just the beginning of seeing these technologies enter domains many of us work in where Microsoft did not appear before, such as airplanes, space, and so on. The URL for the trip report is: http://unicoi.kennesaw.edu/~rconn/tech_ed_2000/index.htm I also have two other related trip reports (one on the launch of Windows 2000 and the other on a Microsoft eXtreme event in which the Pocket PC was launched). You can get to the whole set from my KSU website at: http://unicoi.kennesaw.edu/~rconn/ Rick ==================================== Richard Conn, Principal Investigator Reuse Tapestry