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Roberto Zicari
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A Global Player comes to Germany:

Object World Frankfurt '97 Team Up with COMDEX Internet

Frankfurt/Main - November 27, 1996. A global player will enter the German IT
trade show-market in 1997: 
SOFTBANK COMDEX Inc. - producer of the series of COMDEX trade shows world wide -
will launch COMDEX Internet '97 in Frankfurt/Main together with Object
World Frankfurt '97.

COMDEX Internet '97 and Object World Frankfurt '97 will take place on 
October 7 - 10, 1997 in the Sheraton Conference Center Frankfurt (Airport),
Frankfurt/Main, Germany. The show will consist of two conferences side by side
and one combined exposition.

COMDEX Internet '97 will be the premiere COMDEX event in Germany, and will focus
on the business use of the Internet. The COMDEX Internet'97 conference will
cover topics such as: the Internet as a business communication vehicle,
Electronic Commerce, Developing Intranet-based applications, and Java.

The Object World Frankfurt '97 conference - now in its sixth year - will cover
the practical aspects of applying object technology for business, with
particular focus on Finance, Telecom, Healthcare and Manufacturing.

Object World Frankfurt has experienced constant growth (1996: 60% larger than
1995) and it is recognized as the most important event for Object Technology in
Europe.

The combined exposition will consist of three dedicated technology areas: a
COMDEX Internet Pavilion, an Object World Pavilion and an Open Systems Pavilion.

The exposition has been designed to meet the visitors' expectations for Internet
and Object Technology products on multi-vendors, and multi-platform systems as
indicated by an independent study conducted by META Group on 139 of the 2,800
visitors of this year's Object World Frankfurt '96. The study indicated that:
72 % of attendees operate on Network Operating Systems
69% of attendees operate on UNIX platforms
64% of attendees operate on Windows Desktops
49% of attendees use object technology for Internet/Web application development.

COMDEX Internet '97 and Object World Frankfurt '97 are sponsored and organized
by Object World Corp. (a subsidiary of SOFTBANK COMDEX Inc.), Object Management
Group and LogOn Technology Transfer GmbH.

Information on Conferences and Exhibition:
Christiane Sattler
LogOn Technology Transfer GmbH
Burgweg 14, D-61476 Kronberg/Ts., Germany
phone: 	+49-6173-9558-53
fax: 		+49-6173-9404-20
e-mail: 	LogOn@omg.org
Web:		http://www.ltt.de

Press Contact:
Birgit Osterholt // Annegret Claushues
LogOn Technology Transfer GmbH
Burgweg 14, D-61476 Kronberg / Ts., Germany
phone: 	+49-6173-9558-56//9558-55
fax: 		+49-6173-9404-20
e-mail: 	101510.3135@compuserve.com (Osterholt)
		101354.1424@compuserve.com (Claushues)
Web: 		http://www.ltt.de

Background Information:
As of May 3, 1996, the Object World Series has been acquired by the producers of
the most successful IT trade events worldwide, SOFTBANK COMDEX. This investment
reflects a strategic initiative to join with Object Management Group in a move
toward the expansion and commercialization of object technology around the
world. Object World is the industry's most important event developed to focus on
the commercial and practical aspects of applying object technology and provides
an ideal forum for business and technical professionals to experience first hand
the real-time practice of object technology standards.



SOFTBANK COMDEX Inc.
Since the introduction of the first COMDEX event in 1979, SOFTBANK COMDEX has
continued to meet the growing needs of the global information technology
marketplace. COMDEX/Fall, first held in Las Vegas in 1979, is now the largest
trade show in North America. In 1996 and 1997 SOFTBANK COMDEX will produce over
40 information technology events in North America, South America, Europe and
Asia, which are expected to include over 7,000 exhibiting companies and attract
more than one million attendees from over 120 countries.
Web: http://www.comdex.com

LogOn Technology Transfer GmbH
LogOn Technology Transfer GmbH, founded in 1991, is a privately owned company
exclusively focused on the Internet and object technology markets. LogOn is
organized into five operating divisions: Trade Shows, Marketing, PR, Training
and Business. LogOn organizes Object World Frankfurt since 1993.
LogOn is the official representative of the Object Management Group (OMG) for
Austria, Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia and Switzerland. OMG is
the largest software consortium worldwide with more than 700 company members
dedicated to promoting the theory and practice of object technology (OT) for the
development of distributed computing systems.
Web: http://www.ltt.de