OD'99 - Objetos Distribuídos '99

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Introduction

After consecration of OD’96, OD’97 and OD’98 as quality events and place of reunion of the main leaders and professionals in the area of Distributed Objects, the Distributed Objects'99 is held in São Paulo from December 12 through 15, 1999.

This year the event will be bigger, with exposition and specifics segments in several areas that utilize distributed objects technology, among others, "Distributed Objects Experiences". The importance to the market

In the past years the Information Technology (IT) area of large corporations has been going through continuous transformations changing in a fundamental way how they execute their business. The influence of the Client/Server architecture already reached practically all the companies, showing that the new reality in computing is not a strong concentration of process in centralized computers anymore, with its old architectures and proprietary systems that don't follow any market standard and that limit the growth. The table bellow shows the main points related to this transformation.

Old computer systems	Computer systems used in corporations today
Centralized environment	Client/Server environment
Strong concentration in centralized process	Integration and distribution of process among computers over the network
Dumb terminals with a character interface	Terminals with processing power and easy to use graphical interfaces
Difficulty to grow caused by limits in processing capacity and high cost of centralized computer	Ease of growth by allowing the environment to be scalable at a linear cost
Lack of integration among systems	Integration and coexistence are now pre-conditions
No existence of the Internet	Internet and Electronic Commerce are the norm

Table 1 - Comparison of computing systems of the past and in use today in corporations

Now corporations are taking a new step in their computer structure, this step is the natural evolution of client/server systems, to a distributed environment or Distributed Systems.

Observing from the software development viewpoint, there has also been a strong change in the processes and methods used in the companies. To develop software in this new environment the structured programming technique, used in the 70's and 80's, is not enough anymore, and a new technology is already making part of all the tools and development languages of today. This is called Object Oriented technology.

The union of Object Oriented technology (as a method of software development) with Distributed Systems (as a work environment) gives the origin to the area of Distributed Objects.

Following the research published in the specialized newspaper Object Oriented Strategies in 1996, the growth of the Object Oriented industry in the world is about 30% a year. The volume of business in this area passed the mark of US$ 7 billions last year (see graphic).

OO Market in the World
in US$ millions

*estimated

Figure 1 - Estimates of the volume of business in the OO area in the world

With the recent advent of languages as Java, and support for distributed objects in a native way in Internet browsers, Web servers and Databases, the tendency in this area is to grow even faster for the next years, probably becoming the mainstream technology of the computer industry.

Target Audience

The main public, to which the event is directed is composed of companies which have the need to develop modern software systems, and telecommunications and computing professionals, involved with software development performing the following functions:

Presidents and directors of companies that use computers and telecommunications
Managers and coordinators of software development projects
Senior analysts and consultants
Systems analysts, support analysts , engineers and software developers
Web system developers in the companies
Professors and researchers