  As we approach the turn of the century, the Standard Model is still
consistent with all our experimental observations and the path to a more
complete picture of the fundamental constituents and their interactions has yet
to be clearly identified. Beauty flavored hadrons have provided crucial
experimental information on several fundamental parameters of the Standard
Model and may lead to one of the most challenging test of its validity and
provide some clues on the path towards a more complete theory. Several
experiments will try to explore this rich phenomenology in the next few years.
Their physics goals and discovery potential will be compared.
