FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Gail DeLano
Sheppard Merrill Communications
(408) 761-1953

THE WINDOWS & OS/2 CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION ANNOUNCES A NAME CHANGE

San Francisco, CA-- Miller Freeman, Inc., the nation's third largest producer of trade shows, today announced that their recently acquired Windows & OS/2 Conference is getting a new name -- Business Software Solutions.  The name change is designed to reflect a fresh focus on how today's GUI-based software solutions can help meet the requirements of small, medium and large sized businesses.

While the focus of the conference and show will remain on Windows and OS/2 for now, the relaunch also positions the event as the natural place for discussion of the next wave of graphical operating platforms from Microsoft, IBM and Taligent, NeXT, Sun, and so on.

Jonathan Lazarus, Vice President Systems Strategy of Microsoft Corporation, comments "Microsoft is pleased with the direction being taken by Miller Freeman with its newly relaunched Business Software Solutions conference.  It is in line with our own solutions-based approach to supporting the customer.   Microsoft is pleased to see a new conference dedicated to helping customers build client/server solutions."

The new conference will also address the issues that surround the integration of multiple platforms in an organization, small or large.  "Companies today are fundamentally concerned with tying multiple hardware and software platforms into integrated enterprise-wide business solutions on the desktop.  IBM plans to use Business Software Solutions as a key event to present to the industry our approach to this challenge," comments IBM Corporation's E. Allen Reichard, Manager of Personal Software Products Business Shows.

"Business Software Solutions attendees are primarily users of multiple desktop platforms, and a good number of them are running their systems on a LAN of some type," noted KoAnn Vikoren, Group Show Director.  "Whether tying PCs running Windows and OS/2 into client-server systems, or figuring out how to tie Windows and Macs together over a LAN, attendees will find help with solving those challenges at the show this August and beyond."

Business Software Solutions will be held next in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center, the week of August 23-27, 1993.  The conference and exposition will run concurrently with Software Development '93, the industry's most respected desktop development conference and show.  Exhibit space at the combined event is already better than 70% sold out (more than 250 booths sold), and is expected to draw more than 20,000 attendees.

For more information, contact Fern Leaf, Director of Marketing, Miller Freeman, Inc., 600 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94107.  Telephone (415) 905-2540.