Folks,
I represent the Florida Hewlett-Packard Regional User Group (FLORUG).
We would like to invite anyone who is interested to attend our annual
conference with the theme of "Working in a Multi-Platform Environment"
where we will presenting speakers on various Multi-OS issues related to
HP-UX, MPE, and NT. A brief outline of the conference agenda is presented
below. Also attached are the full conference info package in Word and ASCII
text formats that you can use to register. All the information is well
presented in the information package but if there are any questions, please
feel free to email me at : [log in to unmask]
Conference Theme : Working in a Multi-Platform Environment
Location : The Trade Winds Resort
St. Pete Beach, Florida
Dates : April 27-28, 1998
Spring Conference Schedule
Monday, April 27:
7:30-8:30 a.m. Registration
8:00 a.m. Vendor exhibits open
8:30-9:30 a.m. Welcome/Announcement/Vendor Introductions
9:30-10:30 a.m. Orly Larson (HP Keynote Speaker)
Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard
Title: Building the Electronic Business
10:30-10:45 a.m. Break-Exhibits open
10:45-11:45 a.m. Rob Harper, Citrix
Title: Citrix: The Leader in Thin-Client Server Computing
11:45-12:45 p.m. Lunch
12:45-1:00 p.m. Exhibits open
1:00-2:30 p.m. Pete Fair, Sr. Systems Engineer, Novell, Inc.
Title: Novell Directory Services
Architecture, Design and Integration
2:30-3:00 p.m. Break-Exhibits open
3:00-4:30 p.m. HP Year 2000 Team
Title: Are you Year 2000 Ready?
4:30 p.m. Social activities
Tuesday, April 28:
7:30-8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast in vendor area
8:30-10:00 a.m. MPE Track:
Alvino Nishimoto, R&D Internet Program Mgr., HP
Title: HP 3000 and NT Interoperability
Unix/NT Track:
Christopher Wood, Program Mgr., Forsythe Solutions
Title: Mixing NT & UNIX
10:00-10:30 a.m. Break-Exhibits open
10:30-12:00 p.m. MPE Track:
Brad Tashenburg, Bradmark
Title: MPE Systems Manager
Unix/NT Track:
Ron Dinwiddie, Technical Analyst, Sprint Paranet
Title: Accessing File Systems Across your Enterprise
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch-Exhibits open
1:00-2:30 p.m. MPE/Unix/NT Track:
Ed Lemire, Product Planning Dir., TIDAL Software
Title: Enterprise-wide Job Scheduling
The New Open Systems Challenge
2:30-3:00 p.m. Break-last vendor session
3:00-4:00 p.m. Roundtable discussion
4:00 p.m. Close/Award prizes/Draws
FLORUG
c/o SHERLOCK
P.O. Box 1311
St. Petersburg, FL 33731
Letter from the Conference Chairman
By Paul LeBlanc
Well, you've read about it in our news letters, and we've been telling you about it,
now it's time to register for The Florida Regional Users Group's "FLORUG" Spring Conference.
The theme for this event will be "Working in a Multi-Platform Environment" and will be held
at beautiful St. Pete Beach, Florida, on April 27-28, 1998. The Trade Winds Resort,
located on the warm sandy beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, will be the setting for this
educational and informative conference. FLORUG is proud of the lineup of speakers that
we will be presenting our conference. And in keeping with our theme, they will be covering
topics relating to MPE, HP-UX and NT and how to make them all work together.
We are also excited about having Hewlett-Packard's Year 2000 Team involved, since this is
a very important topic in our industry these days. By attending, you'll learn many tips
and techniques, making FLORUG an excellent educational value.
Sign up today by completing the enclosed registration form, and join other IT Professionals
from across the Southeast in exploring the latest in MPE, HP-UX and NT inter-connectivity.
Spring Conference Schedule
Monday, April 27:
7:30-8:30 a.m. Registration
8:00 a.m. Vendor exhibits open
8:30-9:30 a.m. Welcome/Announcement/Vendor Introductions
9:30-10:30 a.m. Orly Larson, HP Keynote Speaker
10:30-10:45 a.m. Break-Exhibits open
10:45-11:45 a.m. Rob Harper, Citrix
11:45-12:45 p.m. Lunch
12:45-1:00 p.m. Exhibits open
1:00-2:30 p.m. Pete Fair, Novell
2:30-3:00 p.m. Break-Exhibits open
3:00-4:30 p.m. HP Year 2000 Team
4:30 p.m. Social activities
Tuesday, April 28:
7:30-8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast in vendor area
8:30-10:00 a.m. MPE Track: Alvino Nishimoto, HP
Unix/NT Track: Chris Wood, Forsythe Technologies
10:00-10:30 a.m. Break-Exhibits open
10:30-12:00 p.m. MPE Track: Brad Tashenburg, Bradmark
Unix/NT Track: Ron Dinwiddie, Sprint Paranet
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch-Exhibits open
1:00-2:30 p.m. MPE/Unix/NT Track: Ed Lemire, TIDAL Software
2:30-3:00 p.m. Break-last vendor session
3:00-4:00 p.m. Roundtable discussion
4:00 p.m. Close/Award prizes/Draws
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Orly Larson, Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard
Title: Building the Electronic Business
This presentation will address what lies ahead for HP users as the Information Technology
industry evolves toward an era of pervasive computing. Intranets, extranets and the
internet are creating an extended enterprise-computing environment in which everything
and everyone is connected. During this session, Orly will discuss the implications of the
"extended enterprise" for HP users and how HP is helping its customers capitalize on this
trend. HP's strategic intent is to rapidly enable E-Business processes on the extended
enterprise infrastructure. E-Business is broader than E-Commerce and is about using the
Net to enhance current processes and create entirely new processes to strengthen the
performance of your business. He will also outline the technologies and strategic
alliances HP has pursued to "keep a step ahead" in delivering products and services that
maximize customer satisfaction and enterprise performance.
About Orly...
Orly Larson is currently a Marketing Program Manager for HP's Computer Organization in
Cupertino, California and serves as the HP/Interex Relationship Manager and the HP Liaison
to the Interex Board of Directors. He has presented seminars worldwide on HP's information
management and application development technologies. He has contributed numerous articles
on information technologies to various computer trade magazines and newspapers, and serves
as a spokesperson for HP's strategic and technology directions. Orly has been with HP
since 1972.
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Rob Harper, Citrix
Title: Citrix: The Leader in Thin-Client Server Computing
This presentation begins with a background on Citrix. Rob will talk about what thin-client
server computing is with explanations of MultiWin and ICA and two key technologies that
make up WinFrame. He will include case studies to help further explain how WinFrame can
help in a variety of network infrastructures. He will end the presentation with an
explanation of where Citrix is moving into for the future with a detailed talk on the
Microsoft/Citrix agreement. There will be a short dial-up demo at end.
About Rob...
Rob Harper is a Microsoft Certified Trainer who has delivered more than 200 technical
seminars throughout the United States and Canada on such topics as NT Server and SQL
Server. Coming from a network administration background, Rob currently works for Citrix
Systems, Inc. as their system engineer for the southeast region.
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Pete Fair, Sr. Systems Engineer, Novell, Inc.
Title: Novell Directory Services: Architecture, Design and Integration
This presentation will address Novell Directory Services (NDS) from a broad perspective,
including basic architecture, design & implementation guidelines, application extensibility
and multi-vendor/multi-OS integration (Unix, NT, other).
About Pete...
Pete has spent the past 11 years as a Systems Engineer for Novell, supporting end users,
OEMs, resellers and distributors in over a dozen different countries. Based in Tampa,
he now covers the SW coast of Florida (Tarpon Springs-Naples). He graduated as a BSEE
(a REALLY long time ago) and my hobbies are sailing and flying a 1945 Stearman
open-cockpit biplane.
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Member of Year 2000 Team
Title: Are you Year 2000 Ready?
The typical response to this question is, "I think I'm ready, but how can I be sure?"
This presentation is designed to give HP systems users practical suggestions on how to
tell if you are truly ready for the Year 2000. Discussions will include information on
what tools are available and what actions some of the more common application vendors
are taking to assure compliance. Testing considerations will also be outlined. HP
users are encouraged to look beyond their own in-house HP systems to suppliers and
vendors they do business with and develop a plan to minimize difficulties caused by
external compliance issues.
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Alvino Nishimoto, R&D Internet Program Mgr., HP
Title: HP 3000 and NT Interoperability
With the current explosion of NT in business environments, there has been a lot of
interest in how the HP 3000 will interoperate with NT. MPE/ix is not standing still
amidst the changing computing arena, but is continuing to provide interoperability
and data exchange with other operating systems, including NT and UNIX systems. This
presentation will outline various methods to achieve interoperability between your
HP 3000 and NT. Some of these topics include: File and print sharing -- Samba,
MPE Command Center; System Management Tools; Current Trends in Application Development;
"Facelift" Phase; GUI front ends; "Migration" Phase; Database Interoperability - ODBC
Interfaces, JAVA, and JDBC; "Re-architecting Phase; Database Interoperability-Database
Gateways, Middleware, CORBA, DCOM.
About Alvino...
Alvino Nishimoto is an R & D Internet Program Manager at Hewlett-Packard's Commercial
Systems division working on the HP 3000 Interoperability and Internet Solutions.
She joined HP 19 years ago as one of the original developers of the IMAGE-based HP
Materials Management product. She has a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering with a
specialization in Computer Utilization from Stanford University.
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Christopher Wood, Program Mgr., Forsythe Solutions
Title: Mixing NT & UNIX
This presentation will consist of 3 basic sections: Industry overview, UNIX & NT:
Pros & Cons/Facts & Myths, and Integration Scenarios to include business application
software and data warehousing involving NT & UNIX and actual case studies.
About Christopher...
Christopher Wood is a Program Manager with Forsythe Solutions, HP's largest channel
partner. He has worked for companies such as Chrysler Motor Company, Sun Microsystems
and Tenneco Packaging where he was involved with IT planning and implementation issues
involving NT & UNIX platforms supporting enterprise business software.
••••
Brad Tashenburg, Bradmark
Title: MPE Track
Did you ever wish that you could manage your entire HP 3000 systems from one console
using state-of-the art drag and drop technology? Well, now you can. All the power of
enterprise management has been recently placed at the control of the MPE Systems Manager.
Through the MPE Command Center, the operator or systems manager has the entire HP 3000
enterprise at his disposal. Select a particular server and examine the current
environment. Move files from one account to another, check on the status of running
jobs, check the performance of the system, edit the output written to the spoolers,
activate various standard systems functions, and do it all in a graphic user interface.
Did you ever wish you could set system thresholds, where the system could notify you whenever these thresholds have been exceeded? We call that Event Management. Event Management has been available for several years in the UNIX and NT environments. Through the MPE Command Center it is available to the MPE user as well. This session addresses the capabilities and benefits that the MPE Command Center can bring to your environment.
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Ron Dinwiddie, Technical Analyst, Sprint Paranet
Title: Accessing File Systems Across your Enterprise
This presentation will include a discussion of the purpose, terminology and critical
files related to this topic, the benefits of NFS, the potential problems with NFS,
setting up a server, and setting up a client.
About Ron...
Ron Dinwiddie is a Technical Analyst with Sprint Paranet, a company that provides
effective integration, management and support of distributed computing environments.
Ron has been in the computer field since 1972, during which time he spent 22 years in
the U. S. Navy as a Data Processing Technician working on many different platforms.
Ron has held many different positions during his career including UNIX instructor and
consultant.
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Ed Lemire, Product Planning Dir., TIDAL Software
Title: Enterprise-wide Job Scheduling: The New Open Systems Challenge
This presentation examines the job scheduling challenges faced by data center managers
who must deal with multiple operating systems, architectures and frameworks such as
Open View and Netview, as well as applications with embedded schedulers.
Issues examined include: the impact of enterprise-wide scheduling in a data center,
pros and cons of scheduler integration approaches, point scheduling solutions vs.
one-stop shopping, scheduling for networked, distributed architectures, implementation
considerations for an enterprise-wide scheduler, and how to achieve a smooth migration
to an enterprise scheduling environment. Real-world case studies will form the basis
of an overview of successful approaches to enterprise scheduling challenges and
practical "how-to" guidelines on key considerations in the scheduler evaluation process.
About Ed...
Ed Lemire has an extensive software marketing, positioning and new product technology
background. Prior to his present responsibilities as Product Planning Director at
TIDAL Software, Mr. Lemire held positions of Director of Midrange Products at Unitech
Systems, Inc.; Director of Marketing for HarrisData and Marketing Manager for Pansophic
Systems and Wright and Associates. Recently, he chaired the CFO Best Practices in
Financial Management Conference in Sydney, Australia.
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FLORUG
Florida Regional User Group
1998 Conference Registration
Where: Tradewinds Resort
5500 Gulf Boulevard
St. Pete Beach
800-237-0707
This is a beautiful 18-acre resort hotel located directly on the Gulf of Mexico!
Bring your family and stay for the weekend! We're also planning a golf tournament
on Sunday, April 26th, and a reception which will feature a tour of the Titanic exhibit
on Monday evening.
When: Monday, April 27, 1998 and Tuesday, April 28, 1998
7:30 am - 4:30 PM both days
What: "Working in a multi-platform environment". Covering topics of interest in
the Hewlett Packard MPE/iX, HP-UX, and Microsoft Windows NT areas.
Many vendor exhibits.
Price: $245 per person if paid before March 30, 1998. $295.00 after that.
Includes lunch and continental breakfast both days.
Rooms: $149/night. Make reservations directly with Tradewinds Resort and tell them
you're with FLORUG.
Would you like to enter the golf tournament? (circle one) YES NO (# persons) ____
Would you like to join us for the Titanic tour? YES NO (# persons) ____
Name: _______________________________________________________________________
Company: _______________________________________________________________________
Address: _______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
Phone: _______________________
Mail this form and payment to: FLORUG
c/o SHERLOCK
P.O. Box 1311
St. Petersburg, FL 33731
Note: Payment must be by check. We cannot process credit cards at this time.
Your registration will only be guaranteed if payment is made in advance.
Golf and social may have a nominal fee, but we're hoping to get vendor
sponsorship so they'll be free.
For more info, call Mike Bigley (407) 345-2134 or e-mail [log in to unmask]
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