Since being thrown into this coordination role with the others on the "Committee" things have been moving VERY quickly with many presentations, seminars, whitepapers and webinars coming together to kick off OpenVMS Month. With the great participation we have been getting we are starting to plan on more events on a regular schedule throughout the year - more on that in a coming blog.

As of now here is just a glimpse at what is coming in the next month:

Feb 8 13:00 PST: You can watch the Intel ITANIUM 9300 “TUKWILA” LAUNCH EVENT at http://www.hp.com/go/integrity

Feb 10 15:00 GMT: Keith Parris will present a webinar on "Achieving the Highest Possible Availability in your OpenVMS Cluster". Registration is open at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/466770737.

Feb 11 02:00 GMT: Keith Parris will present a second "copy" of the webinar on "Achieving the Highest Possible Availability in your OpenVMS Cluster". Registration open at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/394479824.

Feb 12 10:00 GMT: Colin Butcher will present a webinar on "Networking with OpenVMS" Registration is open at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/557231985.

Feb 12 16:00 GMT: Colin Butcher will present a second copy of the webinar on "Networking with OpenVMS". Registration is available at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/968614105

Feb 18 17:00 GMT: Pieter Hintjens and Martin Sustrik of iMatix and Brett Cameron from HP will present a webinar entitled, "Low Latency, High Throughput, Durable, RESTful, Open, Standards, ...: What is messaging, where does it fit, what does it today?". This webinar is about 90 minutes planned length.

Feb 22-26 in Granville, Ohio: Keith W. Hare of JCC Consulting is presenting a week long RDB DBA Seminar entitled "The Care and Feeding of Production Databases". You can get more information at http://www.jcc.com.

Feb 22: Brad McCusker will present a webinar on "OpenVMS Integrity Migrations - Real World Experiences"

Feb 23 17:00 GMT: Attunity will present a webinar on "OpenVMS - Keep It. Modernise It. Integrate It". Registration is open at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/410322825

Feb 24: Barry Kierstein will present a HOW TO oriented webinar on Availability Manager

Feb 26: Nemonix will present a webinar on "Extreme Encryption devices for OpenVMS".

Mar 4 09:00-11:00 GMT: John Egolf, HP Office of OpenVMS Programs - OpenVMS Update & Roadmaps + 8.4 FT Update. This is being coordinate with Chapters, LUGs and SIGs world-wide for local events, including:

* HPUG (UK) Ltd
* HP-Connect Sweden

Mar 4 13:00-15:00 EST: John Egolf, HP Office of OpenVMS Programs - OpenVMS Update & Roadmaps + 8.4 FT Update. This is being coordinate with Chapters, LUGs and SIGs world-wide for local events, including:

* Cactus Chapter, Phoenix, AZ

As you can see a lot of activity this month. More details will appear on the VMSblog and the Connect Event Calendar over the next couple days so you can have more information about the webinars and other events. If you have any questions or which to be involved send us an email at participate@viavms.com!

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Thanks,

Bill.