Name: Alan Fedder

Age: 57

Place of Birth: Baltimore, MD

Current Position: Executive Director and President, Washington Area Unix Users' Group

Years in Current Position: 6

Years Associated with Unix: 19

Daughters in College: 3

Car He Drives: 1989 Pontiac Grand Am

Blocks He Walks to Work: 2

Favorite Non-Work Activity: Gardening with his wife

Prediction for Open Systems: "Not enough change has happened in the way [open systems vendors] compete with each other and cooperate with each other. They're still very slow in some ways to come up with changes to meet the competition--the monopolistic competition. We still have a very difficult time putting on a single face to the monopolies out there. And that's probably the nature of Unix--it probably isn't going to change. Dictatorships can always make quicker decisions."