The Canadian Association of Compaq Users - An HP User Group Newsletter - June 18, 2003 Edition ************** COUNTDOWN TO OTTAWA TECHNICAL SEMINAR **************** IN THIS EDITION: 1. MEMBERS INVITED TO OpenVMS CAMPGROUND HOSTED BY TERRY SHANNON 2. DEMO OF ALPHA AND ITANIUM RUNNING VMS 3. REGISTRATION TO TAKE PLACE ONSITE AFTER FRIDAY, JUNE 20TH 4. ONE-YEAR FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO "SHANNON KNOWS HPC" NEWSLETTER 5. iPAQ DOOR PRIZE PROVIDED BY HEWLETT-PACKARD 6. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR SEMINAR SPONSORS ======================================================================= ***** 1. MEMBERS INVITED TO OpenVMS CAMPGROUND HOSTED BY TERRY SHANNON ***** Terry Shannon will be hosting an informal Q&A session after the end of Wednesday's presentations at the technical seminar where attendees will be given the opportunity to control the agenda in a social environment. Association members in the Ottawa are also invited to meet with Terry and the HP technical staff at this very special event. An invitation containing full information about this event will be e-mailed to Ottawa area members in a few days. ***** 2. DEMO OF ALPHA AND ITANIUM RUNNING VMS ***** Here is another reason to attend the seminar. The Association is coordinating with HP (Canada) Co. to have an onsite demo of an Alpha and an Itanium running VMS at the techncial seminar. Additional information will be posted on the seminar site at: http://www.communitywerke.com/seminar.htm ***** 3. REGISTRATION TO TAKE PLACE ONSITE AFTER FRIDAY, JUNE 20TH ***** Join industry professionals from organiztions such as Cognos, Dofasco, Pepsi, EDS Canada, and Department of Fisheries and Oceans who have already registered for the OpenVMS Strategy and Directions 2003 technical seminar. Please note that online registration for the technical seminar will close after this Friday on June 20th. Registration will be available onsite at the seminar location from 8:00 am to 9:00 am on Wednesday and Thursday. Visit our seminar pages for daily information updates and to register: http://www.communitywerke.com/seminar.htm ***** 4. ONE-YEAR FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO "SHANNON KNOWS HPC" NEWSLETTER ***** Terry Shannon has provided a free one-year subscription to his "Shannon Knows High Performance Computing" newsletter as a door prize for a lucky seminar attendee. This generous prize will be drawn at the closing of the seminar on Thursday afternoon. To find out more about Terry's newsletter, visit his Web site at: http://www.shannonknowshpc.com/ ***** 5. iPAQ DOORD PRIZE PROVIDED BY HEWLETT-PACKARD ***** Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co. has generously provided an iPAQ H3850 as the door prize for the OpenVMS Strategy & Directions technical seminar. All door prizes will be drawn at the closing of the seminar on Thursday afternoon. To find out more about the iPAQ and other HP products, go to: http://www.communitywerke.com/seminar.htm ***** 6. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR SEMINAR SPONSORS ***** Participating as Day Sponsors at OpenVMS Strategy & Directions 2003 on June 25th and 26th in Ottawa, Ontario, Nemonix Engineering, Inc. and Cyrano Incorporated will be making presentation as part of the agenda at the seminar. In the mean time, please find out about the focused products and services of our sponsors. Nemonix Engineering, Inc. - A partner of HP, the company designs and manufactures a variety of hardware enhancements for the VAX and Alpha platforms. Participating as a Day Sponsor, Nemonix will be making a presentation as part of the seminar agenda to discuss some of their technology solutions. More information about NEMONIX can be found on their web site at: http://www.nemonixengineering.com Cyrano, Inc. - A privately held company, Cyrano builds and distributes multi-platform testing products for software quality assurance, enabling clients to reduce risk, maximize IT investments and ensure that business critical processes remain uninterrupted. Cyrano is also participating as a Day Sponsor and will also be making a presentation at the seminar. More info is available on the Cyrano Web site at: http://www.cyrano.com/ System Resale Solutions - Also a current sponsor of the Association, System Resale Solutions is participating as a Service Sponsor for the coffee breaks at the seminar. A Canadian supplier of used/guaranteed VAX / Alpha and Cisco equipment, the comapny's Web site is located at: http://www.systemresale.com Additional details on our seminar sponsors will become available on our seminar Web pages. If your company is interested in communicating its products and services directly to a focused audience of industry leaders involved in OpenVMS and related technology at the seminar, visit our sposorship info page at: http://www.communitywerke.com/seminar-sponsorshipinfo.htm ======================================================================= WE LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU! We want you to tell us what you think of this newsletter. Your feedback and suggestions are most welcome. Please send your comments and articles to inquire@canacu.org. WE ARE LOOKING FOR A FEW, GOOD REPORTERS Here's your chance to report the news instead of just reading it! We are looking for users from each of HP's product lines to keep their ear to the ground and bring us their 'front line' reports. If you want to be a reporter on the Association's Newsletter staff, send an e-mail to the attention of Alan Clifford at inquire@canacu.org. 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