For Immediate Release
For Information Contact:
Frank Alden Smith
Alden Research, Inc.
3617 Ligon Road
Ellicott City MD 21042
(410) 750-2101
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Paul Edwards
Paul Edwards & Associates
1506 Estates Way
Carrollton TX 75006
(972) 242-6660
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Ellicott City, Maryland, October 3, 2005: Alden Research, Inc., in
partnership with Paul Edwards & Associates, announces the non-exclusive
licensing of the MPE training products from Hewlett-Packard for the
world-wide market. This move allows both companies to provide continuing MPE
training support for the HP e3000 customer base. MPE is the operating
system of the HP e3000 family of business computer systems.
As HP certified MPE professionals, Frank Alden Smith of Alden Research,
Inc., and Paul Edwards of Paul Edwards & Associates were HP contract
instructors for nearly a decade and are long time solution and training
partners of HP. They will provide ongoing course material updates, creation
of new courses, and delivery of high quality MPE training at specific
training facilities or customer sites. Alden Research, Inc., and Paul
Edwards & Associates will maintain a web site, http://www.mpe-education.com,
to which HP will direct all visitors to the HP education web site who are
searching for MPE training classes.
Continuing to provide educational support for MPE is crucial to the
viability of the MPE community now and following the announced
end-of-support date for MPE on December 31, 2006. Alden Research, Inc., and
Paul Edwards & Associates have reaffirmed their commitment to provide MPE
training as long as the customer base requires it. Customer training is as
important to the MPE users as hardware and software support. “By entering
into this agreement, HP is showing that they are forward thinking and quick
to react to their customer needs by providing the best quality, lowest cost,
and most responsive training environment for the user community,” said Frank
Smith of Alden Research.
Classes offered include MPE Fundamentals, MPE System Management, TurboImage
and Query, MPE Network Administration, MPE Performance and Tuning, MPE
Programming, and VPLUS. These courses can be customized to each customer’s
requirements, and other courses can be developed based on customer need. The
classes will be kept up-to-date with any new releases of the operating
system. “People who decide to homestead on the HP e3000 platform past the
end-of-support will need a source of professional training to address their
continuous needs due to staff attrition and other causes for many years into
the future,” said Paul Edwards of Paul Edwards & Associates.
About Alden Research, Inc.
Alden Research, Inc. has provided the HP e3000 community with application
development and training support for more than a quarter of a century. It
was founded as a sole proprietorship in 1976 by its current president Frank
Alden Smith, and incorporated in 1981. During that time it has added many
major clients to its list of satisfied customers, which include:
Hewlett-Packard, Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, The District of Columbia
Department of Public Works, Long Island Lighting Company, and Lillian Vernon
Corporation, to name just a few.
About Paul Edwards & Associates
Paul Edwards & Associates is a full service consulting firm specializing in
Hewlett-Packard computer systems. They are a recognized leader in providing
professional data processing consulting services, applications development,
training, and solutions in many industries throughout the U.S. since 1980.
Details on their offerings are available at: http://www.peassoc.com.
Paul Edwards has over 28 years of application development, training, systems
management, and consulting on HP e3000 computer system platform using MPE
and many third party tools. He is a recognized speaker on a variety of
topics at many user group meetings and conferences.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and
institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure,
global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For
the four fiscal quarters ended July 31, 2005, HP revenue totaled $85.2
billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at
http://www.hp.com.
Information in this announcement includes the company's beliefs, hopes,
expectations, intentions and strategies regarding the company, its future
and its products and services. Actual results could differ materially from
those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain
risks. The company cannot guarantee its future performance. All
forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are based on
information available to the company as of the date of this announcement and
the company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statement
contained herein.
Throughout this announcement, software and hardware products are mentioned
by name. In most, if not all, cases, the companies that manufacture the
products claim these product names as trademarks. It is not our intention to
claim these names or trademarks as our own.
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CDR Paul Edwards USNR Ret. HP 3000/9000 Certified Consultant
Paul Edwards & Associates Phone: (972) 242-6660
1506 Estates Way Fax : (972) 446-9022
Carrollton TX 75006 Cel : (214) 384-8728
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