May 19th: The Business Software Alliance and Price Waterhouse host a seminar to discuss the software industry's contribution to Western European economies, incl. Ireland, to the year 2001. A second topic is software piracy rates for Ireland - Westbury Hotel, Dublin, 11am.
May 21st: Mediawave 98 - an exclusive Macromedia solutions seminar with special emphasis on the Web. Arthouse, Temple Bar. Includes Apple's new Quicktime 3 amongst other software , with special emphasis on the Web.
May 21st: Irish Internet Association hosts a `techie brekkie' at 8:00 a.m. in the Mont Clare Hotel, Dublin. Topic is Progress in CyberPayments: A Case of Ready, Steady, Wait? and the speaker ios Dr. Donal O'mahony of TCD. See www.iia.ie.
May 21st (busy day): Day-long seminar on the SQL Server 7.0 for Distributed Applications. Cost: £49 (ex VAT). Microsoft WPGI2 Auditorium, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18. - to register, tel 1890 211 333 (Republic) or 0990 22 88 30 (Northern Ireland).