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Message from the President: Welcome Mat

Speaker Program Highlights


PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON

Is Microsoft Doomed?
The Linux Revolution: A New Business Model for the Computer Industry
Cliff Miller
President & CEO, Pacific HiTech, Inc.
12:00-14:00 Wednesday, April 14, 1999

Linux, a very powerful operating system for computers, began quietly enough in the mind of a Finnish graduate student about eight years ago. It quickly spread throughout the computer world by way of the Internet. Today, the number of Linux users worldwide currently exceeds ten million and is growing exponentially. Computer industry powerhouses like IBM, Oracle, NEC, Compaq, Fujitsu, Dell and others have recently declared their support for Linux, with many now offering it as an installed option.

Yet, the amazing thing about Linux is that the software technically costs NOTHING. Anyone can use it or distribute it for FREE. Is

Cliff Miller

Linux and software developed along its lines the future? Is this the beginning of the end of Microsoft and the Windows operating system?

Cliff Miller, President and CEO of Pacific HiTech, will talk about how Linux has captured the imagination of hackers and computer entrepreneurs, how software licensing is evolving, and how all this affects software companies like Microsoft, as well as the corporation and private user. Mr. Miller is a computer scientist and linguist with fluency in Japanese, Chinese and Macedonian. His company, Pacific HiTech, produces TurboLinux, the leading Linux brand in Asia, with over 50% market share and 1,000,000 copies distributed in Japan during 1998.

RESERVATIONS

PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON

Yukio Aoshima
Governor of Tokyo
12:00-13:45 Friday, April 16, 1999

Incumbent Tokyo Governor Yukio Aoshima will give his analysis of the outcome of the April 11 election to choose his successor when he visits the Club for a luncheon speech on April 16.

Aoshima, who startled political circles by declining to seek reelection for the top job in Tokyo, will also give a candid assessment of his own term--pluses and minuses--during his speech at the Club.

Elected Tokyo Governor in April 1995 on a platform that included cancellation of the World City Expo Tokyo 1996, Aoshima followed through by officially cancelling the expo at the end of May.

Yukio Aoshima

After spending most of his career as a comedian, Aoshima found running the Tokyo bureaucratic machinery was no laughing matter.

Charges of fiscal irresponsibility mounted and Aoshima found his administration awash in red ink.

At his first press conference as governor-elect, lifelong maverick Aoshima tempered self-assurance with humility: "For 24 years as an upper house member I've always been in a position to criticize. But now I won't be able to do everything all by myself."

RESERVATIONS


The FCCJ is a private club for members and their guests only.

TO ALL MEMBERS:

"Welcome Mat"

Reception for All New Members
18:00-19:30, Tuesday, April 13, 1999

Calling all members, new and old. Come and help us give a proper welcome to all members who have joined the Club over the past six months.

This is an excellent opportunity for newcomers of the club to meet some of our old hands. It is a great chance, too, for established members to help us give a rousing welcome to all our new friends. Drink at reduced price and party food will be served from 6:00 p.m.

All those planning to attend should inform the reception desk beforehand.

Bob Neff
President

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PROFESSIONAL EVENTS CALENDAR
Mr. Atsuyuki Sassa
Crisis Management Expert and Former Director, Cabinet Security Affairs Office
12:00-14:00 Monday April 12, 1999
Motohiro Yamaguchi
1998 World Cup Japan Team member and Captain of Yokohama Flugels
Now player for Nagoya Grampus Eight
18:30-20:30 Monday, April 12, 1999
Mr Yasuo Shingu
Chairman, Kansai Economic Federation (KANKEIREN), and Honorary Chairman, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
"KANSAI: STRATEGY FOR REGIONAL COMPETITION--AND BEYOND"
12:00-14:00 Tuesday, April 13, 1999
Is Microsoft Doomed?
The Linux Revolution: A New Business Model for the Computer Industry
Cliff Miller
President & CEO, Pacific HiTech, Inc.
12:00-14:00 Wednesday, April 14, 1999
Seth Sulkin (Torius Mega Mall) - Mark Yamamoto (Virgin Cinemas) - Mike Sinegal (Costco)
"The Mega-Mall Comes to Japan"
12:00-14:00 Thursday April 15, 1999
Yukio Aoshima
Governor of Tokyo
12:00-13:45 Friday, April 16, 1999
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