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From: "Jeff Killeen" <KilleenJ@IDMINC.Ultranet.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: Advanced I.T. Solutions '98 - still a NT only event
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:41:17 -0500
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Ed Wilts wrote in message <69k17f$puk$1@blackice.winternet.com>...
>In article <68i2fu$1j2$2@winter.news.erols.com>, "Jeff Killeen"
<KilleenJ@IDMINC.Ultranet.COM> wrote:


>Today is 1/15/1998.  Has the plug been pulled, or was last week's deadline
>soft?
>
>What is the content of the Philly conference?  Is a VMS person like me
going
>to be wasting his time and money going?


We will begin releasing the details during next week.  IMO Digital
Engineering has done a bang up job of putting together a training program
for Enterprise System Administrators and Network Administrators.  The
following is a quote from the internal memos that went out from Digital
management to the engineering groups about the sessions to be presented...

    " These sessions should be given by engineers on-site, not product
managers or marketing people."

...Digital is making the investment to do a real in-depth technical training
program.



The VMS group is targeting 3 sub tracks...

    I.T. Professionals who's interest is in core VMS.  These are the folks
who are looking to leverage and enhance their existing investment by  such
things as extending VMS's 24 x 365 capabilities with Galaxy Technologies or
using VMS as a Enterprise server for Web Enabled Applications.  Folks who
are NOT in migration or coexistence mode but instead are focusing on VMS and
it mission critical capabilities.

    I.T. Professionals who are exploring the OVMS and WNT seamless
integration of the Affinity Program.

    I.T. Professionals who are deeply into Affinity i.e. "To Affinity and
Beyond"

...VMS engineering has put together a program that should make attending
Philadelphia a valuable use of your time no matter what flavor of VMS is
your taste.  The VMS group is also running something new called "Hands-On"
sessions.  These will be intense classroom type extend sessions (3 hours),
with hardware,  where you and the VMS folks will go over in-depth a
particular technology.   As of today (still subject to change but not
likely)...

    Migrating from MailWorks for OpenVMS to Office Server
    Setting Up Web Publishing Using Office Server for OpenVMS
    PATHWORKS - Part 1
    PATHWORKS - Part 2
    24x365 Building the Cluster
    24x365 Practical Operations

...there will be NO additional charge for these "Hands On" sessions but
seating is limited as will be on a first come, first serve basis.  There
will also be a OpenVMS Engineering Hints and Kinks sessions that
*registered* attendees will be able to submit questions to in advance and
Digital will have answers when they arrived in Philadelphia.  This will
avoid the "we will get back to you" type of answers.  This isn't for bug
reporting.

For old time's sake we signed off the product management folks doing a "VMS
Update" session ;-)




The UNIX group is planning 4 tracks - one per day...

    Monday        - Digital Unix under the covers - an in-depth review of
sub-systems of Digital's Unix

    Tuesday       - Single System Install - How to best install various
sub-systems of Digital's Unix

    Wednesday - TruClusters - How to build a cluster and not a clump

    Thursday      - The Computer is the network

...the program will also include such other subjects as Microsoft
Integration Tricks.  The Unix folks will also run a Hints and Kinks like the
VMS one outlined above.  Finally there will be several 6 hour UNIX Tutorials
on Sunday @ $195 each.




There will also be session material from the Server, AltaVista, and Storage
groups.

There will be a Digital Listen panel run in a similar advance written
questions format to the Hints and Kinks sessions outlined above.  This will
be for questions for Digital management related to Digital business
practices and product strategies.

My personal favorite - there will be the "Digital Engineering Technology
Center".  This will be setup and run by the engineering folks (i.e. not the
tradeshow marketing folks - sorry folks no jugglers) and will be a place
where you and the engineers can get down a discuss the nut and bolts of a
technology or a problem.  It should be set up in a round table format with
appropriate hardware.



BTW Ed - nice to be dealing with a content of the conference question than
side issue like marketing announcement timings...