Despite a looming conflict with Apple Computer Inc.'s revamped conference schedule, the management company behind MacHack on Tuesday announced that the storied gathering of Macintosh programmers would go on.

Expotech of Grosse Point Park, Mich., announced that the 18th annual MacHack will run as originally scheduled, from June 19 to 21 in Dearborn, Mich., despite the fact that Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is now due to kick off two days later.

Apple last week announced that it was rescheduling WWDC from May to June. WWDC is now slated to run June 23 to 27 in San Francisco instead of in its traditional home in San Jose, Calif. Apple said it needed the extra five weeks to prepare a preview release of its next major Mac OS X upgrade, dubbed "Panther."

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