at the three main network operating systems currently in use in Bermuda.

Dubbed "The Great Network Shootout'', the event is slated for 6 p.m. at the Mariners Club on Richmond Road.

Amid the Island's highly competitive field of network operating systems, the "Shootout'' will pit Mr. Pete Ramsdale, shooting for IBM's OS/2 Lanserver, Mr. Jamie Thain, shooting for Microsoft's Windows NT, and Mr. Rob Salmon, shooting for Novell's Netware, against each other under the watchful eye of "sheriff'' Mr. Hugh O'Neill.

Organisers of the event are promising it will be educational and also offer a hefty dose of humour.

The three participants will each bid for an imaginary contract to implement an operating system in a top Bermudian organisation, said the computer society.

Each participant will be given about 20 minutes to make a presentation about their respective computer systems.