Conference taveng::bagels

1422.0. "European DECUS overlaps Yom Kippur" by RUTILE::DAVIS () Fri Jul 22 1994 15:25

From  Paul Samuels @REO

                           DECUS Europe Symposium'94

Why your customers should be there.

The DECUS Europe Symposium is the only major Digital focused event to be 
organised in Europe this year and as such attracts many keynote speakers 
included Bob Palmer, Jesse Lipcon, John O'Keefe, and many more including top 
technology and product experts from the USA and Europe.

Your customers will be able to see live demonstrations of Digital's latest 
products and technology at the Digital Technology Centre, attend formal 
sessions covering subjects from raw technology to business and industry issues, 
as well as visit the Partner's Exhibition offering complementary solutions.

The Symposium offers your customer opportunities to gain value for money 
training, exchange information and ideas, solve problems, establish new 
contacts, and discuss issues and technology with Digital's experts.

Overall, this traditionally technical forum, which has recently also been 
enlarged to discussing business-oriented issues as well, is an excellent 
opportunity for  customers and people interested in Digital to be informed on 
Digital strategy and products. 

Where and When?

The 1994 DECUS Europe Symposium will take place this year from Monday September 
12 to Friday September 16 in the Palais des Festivals et des Congr�s in Cannes, 
France. 

Get your brochures from:-

To get brochures or if you require further information please contact:-

DECUS Support Group REO F7/3 
DTN: (830) 2182
Tel: 0734 2022182
Email: Avril Allan @REO

or

European DECUS organisation

Tel. +41-22-709.4655/4264).

General information

What is DECUS?

DECUS is the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society. 
DECUS has a partnership relationship with Digital that is unique in the IT 
industry which is endorsed and supported by Chris Conway in the UK, and at the 
highest corporate level of Digital by Bob Palmer. 

Formed in 1961, the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society has become the 
largest and most respected users group of its kind in the industry. There are 
47,000 individual members in Europe and 120,000 world-wide.

The mission of DECUS is to promote the exchange of information among people
interested in Digital and Digital-related products, services and technologies; 
to advance their interests and to help them and their organisations be 
successful.  In addition, DECUS offers its members the opportunity to 
communicate openly with Digital Equipment Corporation on its products, 
strategies and policies.
    
DECUS Europe Symposium'94 Details:-

	Dates : Monday Sept. 12th --> Friday Sept. 16th
		Symposium sessions: Tuesday to Friday
		Training Seminar days: Monday and Friday
		Exhibition: Tuesday to Friday noon
	
	Location: Palais des Festivals et des Congr�s - Cannes - France

	Costs Symposium: From CHF 450 (1 day) -> CHF 1150 (Full Symposium)

	Costs Training Seminar:  From CHF 600 (1 seminar) -> CHF 1000 (2 
				 seminars)

	Pre-registration & deadline and payments

		The registration package is available via your local DECUS
		office or via the DECUS European Headquarters:
			       	12, Avenue des Morgines
				CH-1213 Petit Lancy 1/Geneva
				Phone: (+41)-22-709.42.64
				Fax  : (+41)-22-709.44.94
			
	Digital Keynote Speakers : 

		Robert B. Palmer - President and CEO
		Jesse Lipcon - V.P. - OpenVMS System
		Dr. Samuel H.Fuller - V.P. -Corporate Research
		John O'Keefe - V.P. - Unix marketing
		Charles Christ - V.P. - Storage Business Unit
		Gianni Messora - V.P. - MCS
		Barry Nay - V.P. - European Product mktg.
		Mark Selby - Director - European Sales 

	Training Seminar program (Monday and Friday):

		Sessions on Alpha AXP, Applications, Application Development,
		Business Strategy and management, Client/Server Computing,
		Clusters, Databases, Networks, Open Systems, Personal 
		Computing, Security, Storage, Windows NT

3) Demonstration Area
	
	3.1) Digital demonstrations

                3.1.1 - INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
		
		In the IM booth will demonstrate all the solutions able to 
		realise the value of information in the Enterprise. Emerging 
		Technology like Multi-media databases applications as well as 
		management of heterogeneous database will be shown. Other major 
		solutions shown will be in the area of Mission critical and 
		transaction processing applications as well as OO Analysis and 
		design tools.


                3.1.2 - ENABLING SOFTWARE

		Multivendor Desktop Integration including:
		PATHWORKS Solutions from Digital, PATHWORKS for Macintosh v6.0,

		Workgroup computing including:
		Digital Workgroup Solution, Business Solution Frameworks ,
		
		Polycenter including: 
			Polycenter Netview
			Polycenter Event Management
			Polycenter Console Manager
			Polycenter for UNIX environments

		Middleware and Client/Server tools
		Jabberwocky, Banking Demo, Forte, Team/SEE

                3.1.3 - NETWORKING

		Network Transports - too many choices?
		Keeping villains away from your network!
		Travelling the Information Highway (without getting lost...)
		Don't be disconnected while away from your office!
		Comprehensive Network Management - Making the most of it!
		Network Infrastructure - Building and maintaining the network
		High Speed Networks - Don't be caught in the slow lane!

                3.1.4. COMPUTER SYSTEMS

		The Computer Systems booth consists of two parts, an area where 
		the family of Digital systems is displayed, and a demo area. 
		The demo area will have three sections: OpenVMS, OSF/1 and 
		Windows-NT.

		The OpenVMS section will cover Argus, Visual Systems 
		configuration tool and New functionality and features of 
		OpenVMS.

		The OSF/1 part will demonstrate Video on demand, Digital's 
		Parallel Software Environment (PSE), tools like FORTRAN 90, 
		High Performance FORTRAN, parallelising tools and debugger. 
		Farms concepts and tools but also new functionality and 
		features of DEC OSF/1 like SMP, cluster functionality, file 
		serving.

		The 3rd part, Windows-NT will answer the question : Why 
		Windows-NT and this will be done through a walkthrough in a 
		virtual company, showing various styles of desktop computing 
		using Windows-NT: 
			End-user under Windows-NT
			Multimedia with Windows-NT
			Network integration under Windows-NT
			Windows For Workgroup : remote connection to Windows-NT

	3.2) DECUS 3rd-party demonstrations

	The following companies have confirmed participation. Several others 
	have processed reservations.

	Booth Number		Company (Alphabetic Order)

	24			Anixter (Belgium), 
	13			Appic (Fr)	
	44			Braintree (UK)	
	18			DEC/Rank Xerox 	
	26-27-28		DEC/Storage (USA) 	
	33			DEC/PCBU (Europe)	
	1			Disc Europe (UK)	
	12			DPD Europe (UK)	
	29			Eurologic (Ireland)	
	45			HIS Software AG (CH)	
	3			Holland House (NL)
	21			Integralis Ltd. (UK)	
	14			Integrata AG (Germany)	
	37			ICS Inc. (USA)	
	15			ISG-The Database Solutions (USA+NL)	
	25			Ixelog (Fr)	
	41			Magic Software (Israel)	
	16			Microsoft (Europe)
	19			Rank Xerox (UK)	
	43			Rapid-Gen (UK)	
	35			Raxco Europe (UK)	
	40			Royal Support (NL)	
	22			SAS Institute (Germany)	
	2			SCO (Fr)	
	23			Sophos Plc (UK)	
	30			Stern Computing (Fr)	
	32 			Sunbelt/Amosdec (Fr)	
	38			Sybase (Fr)	
	39			Systar (Fr)	
	42			Uniface Intl (NL)
	34			WRQ Reflection (NL)	
	36			Zitel (UK)	

    	This is the same old <expletive deleted> that seems to happen every
    year.  There are many old threads in this file about this same kind of
    insensitivity.

    	Networld+Interop is also scheduled for that week in Atlanta.  I
    have pointed out to them (with thundering silence in response) that
    since their exhibits (which attract most of the attendance) run only
    Wednesday through Friday, and Yom Kippur is Wednesday evening through
    Thursday, a lot of Jews will simply not attend.  What, Dan Lynch worry?

    	The response to this is usually "Gee, no wonder it was so easy to
    get those dates at the convention center!"

    	I'll send mail to Paul Samuels @ REO with a copy of the calendar we
    keep somewhere in this file, not that it can change the current
    situation.

    		David

From:	NAC::OFSEVIT "card-carrying member  25-Jul-1994 1055" 25-JUL-1994 11:05:37.45
To:	mts$::"REO::Paul Samuels",mts$::"REO::Avril Allan"
CC:	me
Subj:	European DECUS schedule

    Hello,

    	I do not know whether you are aware that the week selected for
    European DECUS this year is the week during which the Jewish High Holy
    Day of Yom Kippur falls.  Most Jews observe this day in some form, and
    it actually lasts from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday evening. 
    It is family- and community-centered, and I believe you will find that
    many potential Jewish DECUS participants will simply stay home this
    year.

    	I request that you and the DECUS committees pay closer attention to
    the calendar in future schedules.  Besides being considerate of others'
    personal needs, it is also a practical business matter, since as an
    employee, a shareholder, and an occasional DECUS participant I feel we
    must take every step to maximize the effectiveness of our events.

    	The attached calendar, which explains this in more detail, is
    available on the TAVENG::BAGELS notes file.  It has also been widely
    distributed via various Valuing Differences groups within Digital.

    	Thank you.

    		David Ofsevit
    		Network Operating Systems Consulting Group

    ----- attachment -----

	[calendar from topic 1151 deleted]

    (transliteration) Excuse the spelling.
    
    Eir ver goonisht helfen.
    
    -Ira

>    (transliteration) Excuse the spelling.

    You're excused.  :-)
        
>    Eir ver goonisht helfen.
    
    I think it sounded like "Es vill goornischt helfen" when my parents
    said it.

    Anyway...  Paul Samuels is just a person who was asked to forward
    the message.  I have heard from another person who was involved in
    actual planning, and I am waiting for permission to post that reply. 
    If I don't get permission I will paraphrase.  Stay tuned.  The bottom
    line is "Es vill goornischt helfen," of course, but we have to keep
    hammering at the powers that be.

    Interesting side issue:  I just checked the WWW listing for
    Networld+Interop which is scheduled that same week, and they have
    flip-flopped their schedule.  Normally they do seminars Monday and
    Tuesday and run the exhibition and conference Wednesday-Friday.  In
    Atlanta they will run the exhibition and conference Monday-Wednesday
    and have the seminars following.  That will actually allow people to
    attend the show early in the week and be home by erev Yom Kippur,
    although exhibitors will be in a bind of having to leave before closing
    time Wednesday.  The last day of a show is always the slowest, of
    course.

    		David

    	The person who got in touch with me would prefer not to have their
    messages posted, so here's a summary (my interpretation) of the
    situation:

    1.  European DECUS has been held in September for over 20 years and the
    committee was aware of the number of Jewish holidays during the month
    this year.  (I wonder why they are so inflexible.  What's magic about
    September?)

    2.  They feel that this will affect less than 2% of potential
    participants.  (I question their number, which is probably based on
    percentages of the general population.  Our industry has a much higher
    proportion of Jews in it.  Also, how can they measure the number of
    people who quietly refuse to participate?)

    3.  The European DECUS Council ok'd the date without opposition from
    the Israeli rep.  (I'll leave it for the folks in Israel to comment on
    *that*!)

    	Yeah, sure.  Es vill goornischt helfen.

    		David

>    1.  European DECUS has been held in September for over 20 years and the
>    committee was aware of the number of Jewish holidays during the month
>    this year.  (I wonder why they are so inflexible.  What's magic about
>    September?)

Do I hear strains of "Fiddler?"  Yes, it's "Tradition."

re.0

>The DECUS Europe Symposium is the only major Digital focused event to be 
>organised in Europe this year and as such attracts many keynote speakers 
>included Bob Palmer, Jesse Lipcon, John O'Keefe, and many more including top 

Interesting bit is that one of these three gentlemen happens to be of the
Jewish persuasion.