Re: LISA...how good

[Elizabeth Zwicky <crash.neu.sgi.com">zwicky]

SAGE-UK has only had the one conference, last year; SAGE-AU just
finished its second conference. SANS in 1995 will be the fourth. The
primary difference between SANS and LISA is that SANS aims at current
best practice, including commercial solutions, and LISA aims at the
state of the art; LISA tends to be more advanced and more theoretical.
Either one of them will send you home itching to ftp half-a-dozen
things, however. SAGE-AU and SAGE-UK conferences obviously always
occur in Australia and Great Britain, respectively. SANS is reasonably
committed to staying on the East Coast of the US, while LISA
theoretically moves around, although it will next be east of the
Mississippi in 1996, when it is tentatively scheduled to be in Chicago.
(I feel myself being sucked unwillingly into the quicksand of the
Location Discussion yet again: let me point out that we all agree
that moving LISA around is a good thing, and that 1996 is the first
year when it is possible.)

	Elizabeth D. Zwicky
	zwickycorp.sgi.com
	(If you are in Europe, author may be closer than she appears)