To All:
Please excuse the bandwidth....

Larry Barnes said:
"I thought going to HP World was for improving your skills with the HPe3k?
Has the HP world become so political that they need a political humorist to
break the ice?

I believe I will save my travel bucks and apply them to better use."

The following sessions, in the MPE tract,  are currently scheduled.  Sorry to
see that Larry won't be
there to learn from the best in our industry.  This is only one of several
tracts and I for one am
overwhelmed by the list, and quality, of speakers.  It appears that the HPWorld
Conference Committee
has done their job.

MPE

This track will focus on the expanding suite of solution technologies available
on the HP3000 provides many new opportunities to meet today's rapidly
changing business environment using this well-proven and cost effective
technology.

    IMAGE/SQL Database Foundations (F. Alfredo Rego)
    Installing DNS Server on the HP e3000 (Ronald Dupree Moore, HP)
    MPE/iX Intermediate Performance (Craig Solomon)
    MPE System Configuration (Jon Diercks)
    Java on e3000: Practical Apps (Mike Yawn, HP)
    Posix Pthreads on MPE/iX (Bill Cadier, HP)
    LDAP SDK on MPE/iX (Hermanth T D, HP)
    Internet Security on the HP e3000 (OnOn Hong, HP)
    MPE/iX 6.5 Performance (Kevin Cooper, HP)
    COBOL Programming for the HP 3000 (Jeanette E. Nutsford)
    SIG COBOL (Jeanette E. Nutsford)
    New Features in ALLBASE/SQL (Renjith U S, HP)
    Samba/iX 2.x: The New Vistas (Hemanth Thalak Dattatreya, HP)
    GUI Interface Technologies (Leslie Rubinstein)
    Web-Enabling HP 3000 Apps (Rick Laurenzo)
    Web-Enabling Your HP e3000 Environment (Alvina Nishimoto, HP)
    ODBC Power-User Session (John Middelveen)
    MPE 6.5 (Alvina Nishimoto, HP)
    MQSeries for MPE/iX (Gary Clueit)
    IMAGE/SQL and TPI (Gerry Johnson)
    QCTerm Tutorial (Wirt Atmar)
    VB and the HP 3000 (Charles Finley)
    Writing Robust MPE JCL (Dan R. Rodriguez)
    Cross-Platform Data Access (Birket Foster)
    SIG SoftVend (Birket Foster)
    DataExpress BOF (Sylvia Whitworth)
    SIG SysMan (Donna S. Garverick)
    SIG UIF/VPLUS (Michael W. Watson)
    Using SPT (Stephen Macsisak, HP)
    SIG RAPID (Rich Trapp)
    IMAGE and HP SQL Roundtable (Ken Paul)
    HP 3000 Roundtable (Bill Lancaster)
    SIG FORTRAN (David H. Floyd)
    SIG OMNIDEX (Ken Nutsford)
    SIG HP/SQL (Gary L. Biggs)
    SIG IMAGE (Ken Sletten)
    SIG Consult (Cortlandt Wilson)
    MACS BOF (Jonathan M. Backus)
    SIG AMISYS (Christina A. Cejka)
    SIG MPE (Jeff Kell)
    SIG CS (Ken Nutsford)
    SIG WEB (Joe Geiser)
    HP MPE Performance Panel (Bill Lancaster)
    SIG Speedware (Judith S. Fisher)
    Maestro BOF (Keith Olson)

Chuck Ciesinski
Hughes Network Systems

My opinions, not my employers.