Welcome to the TandemWorld Newsletter for January 2005.
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BrightStrand
Integrated Research intros real-time ATM monitoring software
Insession Technologies
TSI selected as NED’s tape partner for Itanium based systems
Liemur Works With Major Investment Bank to Adopt Risk Based Iterative Software Development Methodology
ACI - BASE24-ES
Fusion95 -- PC To Unix connectivity
Failure is still ‘Not An Option’ for the NSK Relay Team of Enterprise Management Solutions
Introducing Spectra
Mayo Clinic
ITUG News
Ebug
Employment
Tsunami Relief
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BrightStrand 
BrightStrand International would like to wish all Tandemworld readers a very Happy New Year and look forward to seeing you at the SATUG (South African Tandem User Group) (www.satug.org) meeting the 22nd and 23rd of February 2005 and at BITUG (www.bitug.com) on the 8/9th March 2005. 

On the 16th and 17th March 2005 we will be participating in the Business Continuity show at the Excel centre in London's Docklands and available on Stand 226 to discuss and demonstrate how Fault Tolerant Solutions can improve your Business Continuity and Risk Management issues. (http://www.businesscontinuityexpo.co.uk/). 

For further information on the Services and Products we have on offer please contact as at 0+44 (0)141 204 4046 or info@brightstrand.com or consult www.brightstrand.com 
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Integrated Research intros real-time ATM monitoring software
Integrated Research a supplier of systems and application management solutions for HP NonStop servers, has introduced Prognosis Transaction Surveillance for ATM and point-of-sale systems. 
According to a news release, the new product seamlessly integrates with the architecture of the existing Prognosis BASE24 software suite to provide a holistic BASE24 monitoring and performance management solution. 
"Prognosis Transaction Surveillance is the first product to provide real-time access to ATM and POS transaction details, including PAN (primary account number) information, with negligible impact on system resources," said Andrew Moran, Integrated Research's product manager for banking and finance applications. "It eliminates the heavy reliance on dedicated personnel, who until now have had to manually extract historical detail from transaction logs." 
Using sophisticated multi-conditional pattern matching with the ability to monitor individual transactions as they happen, this new product enables a number of functions, most notably in the area of fraud detection. Fraudulent activity can be detected within seconds, allowing financial institutions to act fast and minimize their losses due to card fraud. 
The product facilitates offering "extreme customer service," Moran said. Providing the example of an ATM retaining a customer's credit card, he said, "Customer service personnel now have instant access to these types of problems and can initiate customer contact immediately -- explaining why the card was taken and providing advice on how the issue can be resolved." 
For More Information Please contact
Steve Douglas
Integrated Research 
+44 1344 386671
steve.douglas@ir.com
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Insession Technologies
We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Happy and Prosperous New Year in 2005 and we thank you for your business and continued support throughout 2004.
At the end of last year we added another new customer from the Middle East Region to our list. As part of a larger deal the customer purchased Automated Operator (AO) for monitoring and managing its BASE24 environment. AO is a solution developed and supported by ESQ Business Services Inc and distributed by Insession Technologies.
AO provides an out of the box monitoring, reporting, notification and event escalation solution. It is designed to ensure continuous availability of all critical resources and applications for the HP NonStop Server. AO detects and resolves problems before they impact your environment.
To find out how AO can help in your environment please visit http://www.insession.com/nonstop/opennet-ao/Default.asp or email mbox-uk-insession@insession.com for further details. 
Alternatively you can contact your Insession sales representative on +44 1923 812721.
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TSI selected as NED’s tape partner for Itanium based systems
HP NonStop Enterprise Division (HP NED) has selected Tributary Systems, Inc. (TSI) as its partner to develop and supply all direct attached tape storage, connectivity hardware, and library management software solutions for the new HP NonStop Itanium based servers. 
TSI, working with HP NED, will be introducing with the Itanium system both a portfolio of new native fibre channel tape devices and a method for migrating to the Itanium based system previous SCSI based tape system investments. All these products will be sold through the HP NED channel and will be in the HP NED price book.
Additionally, TSI will introduce several other new tape storage products in 2005. Details will follow in the coming months as these products become available to customers. For additional information and for Itanium tape system migration planning, contact Larry Meyers at TSI at 817-354-8009 ext. 32 or email salesusa@tributary.com 
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Liemur Works With Major Investment Bank to Adopt Risk Based Iterative Software Development Methodology
Liemur was selected by a major global investment Bank to implement a comprehensive programme of re-skilling on the basis of their demonstrable knowledge, experience, skills, adaptability and hands-on capabilities in the Object Oriented Software development and Unified Process fields, across a range of commercial environments. 
The Bank’s objective was to move to a risk based iterative development process using a use case driven approach coupled with the benefits of UML for modelling system domains within their Fixed Income Group. 
The critical nature of the Bank’s business environment imposed other hard constraints on how these project services were to be delivered: minimum disruption to day-to-day business, real project problems to be used as coursework "lab" topics, re-skilling programme to be delivered to a variety of different project roles and, finally the programme roll-out to commence within two weeks of agreement on the delivery schedule.
Multi-role training was provided in Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Java Programming Language and Iterative Software Development. To minimise disruption to the business, modular courseware was used to rapidly create customised one/two day training sessions delivered over a 10 week period. Liemur constantly adapted its delivery to the realities of the Bank’s environment, running ad-hoc workshops and coaching within the live project environment as required.
We continue to make a major contribution to the Bank in preparing and helping it to move towards adopting new working practices in software development, and in re-aligning the focus of key management onto the main issues associated with Risk-Based projects.
We can assist your organisation to achieve similar benefits whilst working to your project constraints. We provide project based training aimed at delivering the specific skills and knowledge needed to ensure the success of the customer's development programme in a highly focussed and cost-effective manner. Our training and mentoring sessions are delivered on a Just-In-Time basis using your real-life project domain as the basis for Lab work to maximise the effectiveness of knowledge transfer. Our product portfolio covers OO development, Unified Process methodologies, UML techniques and specific development technologies including Java, C# and XML for all project roles including stakeholders/sponsors, project manager, business analyst and developers.
For more information contact sales@liemur.com
www.liemur.com
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ACI - BASE24-ES
Representing the next generation of ACI’s world class payments platform, BASE24-es™ is now available on the HP Integrity server family running the HP-UX 11i operating system. HPUX joins a growing list of industry standard server technologies supported by BASE24-es including HP Nonstop™, IBM zSeries® and pSeries®, and Sun Solaris™. 
Established two years ago as an end-to-end solution to acquire, authenticate, route, switch and authorize electronic payment transactions across multiple delivery channels, BASE24-es allows banks, retailers and processors to improve profitability, enhance the customer experience, and improve time to market with new products. HP-UX 11i running on the HP Integrity server family delivers market-leading performance in a highly reliable, scalable and manageable environment.
"We are pleased to announce the availability of BASE24-es on the HP-UX 11i platform," said Jeffrey S. Hale, ACI chief marketing officer. "This initiative broadens our long-standing relationship with HP and offers our customers even more choices as they seek to respond to an extremely competitive environment in a cost effective way. HP’s commitment to price/performance, systems reliability and market-leading quality is very well-aligned to our customers’ needs in the enterprise e-payments marketplace. 
Our customers demand ‘financial dialtone’ levels of service and availability as consumers continue to increase their use of electronic payments technology, moving away from cash and checks. Together, HP and ACI address that demand."
Bringing BASE24-es to the HP-UX environment can allow customers to achieve substantial savings in two areas – over inhouse applications and by moving to HP’s adaptive enterprise environment, thereby enabling possible efficiencies in both platform and operational costs and in deployment.
"HP is working with ACI to offer financial services customers an innovative architecture for next-generation e-payments on HP’s leading UNIX platform," said Tim Evans, worldwide director, banking, financial services industry, HP. "Customers will benefit from our combined offering with an optimal balance of scale, reliability, manageability and price/performance."
For More information please consult www.aciworldwide.com
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Fusion95 -- PC To Unix connectivity
Fusion95, for file and print sharing, brings the power of Windows 98/NT/2000/XP editors and development tools to the NonStop Himalaya environment. Fusion 95 allows the NonStop Himalaya server to appear in your Windows workstation's Network Neighbourhood and its file system to appear as a network disk. So Windows hosted programs such as web publishing tools, editors, compilers and development tools can access files without the inconvenience of explicit uploads and downloads of the file.

More info is available on http://www.april.se/english/tandem.asp

Features and Benefits
O Use programs such as Windows Explorer to browse the NonStop Himalaya file system.
O Read and write access to Guardian Edit (101), C Data (180) and Unstructured files.
O Read and write access to NonStop Himalaya files from Windows applications without separate upload or download of the files.
O Uses native Guardian NSK security for all file accesses (the system administrator maps Windows Users to Guardian User IDs using the system administration program.)
O Printers attached to the NonStop Himalaya system can be used by Windows applications.
O Read and write access to all OSS files.
O Easy installation. No need to install any additional client software on individual workstations.

About April System Design - since the company was formed in April 1989 it has been know to design advanced connectivity products that 'integrate PC's with UNIX', based on market standards. April has sold over 500.000 software licenses in more than 60 countries. info@april.se or www.april.se http://www.april.se/english/tandem.asp

CMS Software Ltd are April System's authorised dealers in the UK and they can be contacted at 01708 640382 or sales@cmssoft.co.uk

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Failure is still ‘Not An Option’ for the NSK Relay Team of Enterprise Management Solutions
Happy New Year to all readers and I hope the business pagers stayed quiet over the Christmas and New Year period (for the right reasons and not due to technology failing). 
Although ITL invest heavily in pushing forward the boundaries of NSK management, central control from an enterprise layer across disparate platforms is still the continued focus of many businesses. As such, more and more third parties are pushing for certification of their products with industry standard Enterprise Management solutions. In the case of NSK, this can lead to a diluted troubleshooting front-end for a platform that has often been seen as somewhat niche and specialised. 
The aim of ITL has been to keep the NSK troubleshooting tools alive inside of the Enterprise Layer to provide familiar problem remedying functions, e.g. cause, effect, recovery, secure and audited task initiation and of course, full not partial EMS event feeds. But when relaying problems away from a friendly NonStop, Fault-Tolerant environment, ITL’s first design consideration has been ‘What About The Link??’. With ITL certified solutions to Enterprise Managers like hp OpenView Operations (tm) and TIVOLI (tm), pagers don’t page for the right reasons…. Read on.
Don’t Settle for Weak Links when Reporting Critical Alerts to your Enterprise Layer
One of the observed shortfalls of integrated solutions for an Enterprise Management approach is the lack of appropriate levels of security, auditing and contingency for each proprietary platform monitored. In providing an integrated, end-to-end graphical view of service provision, the rudimentary design considerations engineered into key, industry-leading solutions should also be securely extended to the users of the enterprise layer of the business. This consideration is especially highlighted when relaying critical events away from a ‘NonStop platform’, to be dealt with by non-platform specific solutions. If this is to be the chosen approach for the business then consideration should be given to a number of key areas.
- Maintained Security for both Logon and Manual Task Initiation
A multi-tiered approach to security at the enterprise layer is imperative when allowing remote users access to the hp NonStop platform. Authorisation to access NSK tasks for remedying problems reported to the Enterprise layer of the business should be enforced locally, or on the hp NonStop platform. The user database should be encrypted and secure. The ability to allocate event-viewing functions, task functions and other interactive features as separate user facilities at the enterprise layer is extremely beneficial. This will provide a more secure and controlled environment that allows for both junior and administrator level access to be defined. Individual tasks should be split by type, thereby allowing tasks relating to each application or system area on the hp NonStop platform, to be linked to an appropriate user responsible for that business function.
- Comprehensive Auditing of all User Actions
All user actions relating to task initiation should be audited. This should include the time at which the task was started, the Enterprise user initiating the task, the platform the task was initiated from, e.g. a WIN32 GUI at the Operations Bridge, and the NSK task name that was initiated. Audit reporting, historical look-up and archiving functions should also be provided.
- Supplied Troubleshooting Functions should be Maintained
The hp NonStop platform is unique in its provision of probable Cause, Effect and Recommended texts for each event generated to the primary collector. In relaying events away from the NSK platform for remote viewing, it would not be sensible to denature this troubleshooting function for those who are less knowledgeable in hp NonStop related issues. The option to allow these texts to be viewable at the Enterprise layer should be provided where the Enterprise Manager is being used for problem resolution as well as SLA monitoring. 
- Ensure that NonStop mechanisms have been employed
A key sentiment for those concerned about employing Enterprise Management platforms not traditionally associated with fault tolerance, is the exporting of NSK duties to those remote boxes. Needless to say that if this model is adopted by the business then NonStop relay mechanisms should be implemented by design and incorporated within the chosen solution. The solution should incorporate NonStop dynamic re-routing of events to a secondary box in the event of failure. It should also allow connections to the hp NonStop platform (for task initiation and status checking), to be transferred successfully in the event of partial TCP/IP process failure.
- Some problems that have already been solved
Do you have problems keeping your TIVOLI (tm) software up-to-date with NSK events through TIVOLI BAROC files? Did you know this can be automated? Did you know that you don’t have to settle for scripting or basic command and control of NSK platforms through hp OpenView Operations (tm)? Are your NSK alerts dynamically filtered before relay? Do you still receive cryptic, meaningless events on your Enterprise consoles? These are all issues that were solved in the second millennium by the ITL NSK product range. 
For full details of ITL’s NSK solutions for alerting to Enterprise Managers like hp OpenView Operations (tm), TIVOLI (tm) and BMC, contact support@insidertech.co.uk.
Also look at the following WEB links to view ITL’s certified product status:
http://openview.hp.com/sso/isv/detail?appid=A917
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/mop/mop_partner_product_detail_IDX/1,1331,15511,00.html
http://www.developer.ibm.com/solutions/isv/igssg.nsf/list/bycompanyname/86256B7B0003EBBF86256E7C0044C4D9?OpenDocument
Third Millennium, Future-Proofed Approaches to NSK Batch Scheduling 
For large, critical batch environments, the NSK platform requires a tool that is both NonStop and takes advantage of parallelism. Parallelism is not inherent in all deployed batch solutions and has to be configurable by design to allow you to save time on your batch runs. This has not been a close, guarded secret and ITL’s customers have been taking advantage of this unique batch environment for over a decade – MultiBatch.
In the third millennium, more and more NSK sites want to build the NSK batch run into a batch application solution that manages across all platforms. A number of providers sell solutions to enable this global control but do they stand up to close inspection. Do they take stock of NSK security, auditing, NonStop and Fault-Tolerant approaches, and parallelism? Alas, under the magnifying glass, solutions often settle for basic, rudimentary, unsecured job initiation and hooks into old, large, battle-withered TACL macros. 
How many times have you surfed the Internet to find a site that offers an NSK batch-scheduling plug-in to a multi-platform solution? Click on the link and it doesn’t work or it offers a single page overview that NSK technicians would laugh at. All this tends to hideaway the fact that the hp NonStop offering has not been solved in a robust and reliable way and a first-pass, version 1 solution has been employed. Contact support@insidertech.co.uk for a considerably more comprehensive, proven solution to NSK batch scheduling and read on for the latest batch run innovations.
- What is ‘MCP’?
At the ITUG in October, ITL demonstrated the next generation of the MultiBatch product. Called MCP (MultiBatch Control Point), the software provides an improved set of facilities that will allow configuration, monitoring and creation of batch process management from a single interface (both NSK and OSS). Dynamic configuration changes will also be available allowing a user (with appropriate security) to make configuration changes to a job, or jobs from within the MCP interface.
Ad-hoc queries against an SQL database are also available, e.g. "Show me all jobs that have abended within the last seven days".
Management Information reports are also available, for viewing, printing or e-mailing; this facility can be used to graphically represent the numbers of consistent MultiBatch Unit Failures, or to trend an increase in batch execution time over a period. 
- MultiBatch and Home Terminal Processing
Insider Technologies have created a home terminal process to act as the output channel for Batch jobs executed by MultiBatch.
This process runs as a NonStop process pair, so that a 24x7 home terminal process is guaranteed.
This process writes its output as EMS events to a nominated EMS collector which can be the primary collector $0 or an alternate collector.
The process is capable of recognising DEBUG and INSPECT prompts issued by an application to the home terminal. The home terminal process creates a saveabend file and issues an EMS event to signify that this action has been completed.
Insider Technologies provide an extraction layer program to retrieve the application output from EMS and transfer it to the Windows resident database.
If there are network issues, users can connect into the EMS view via a Console such as Reflex 80:20 Console or ViewPoint. Once the network is re-established, the Insider Technologies extraction layer is capable of reconnecting to the EMS log at the point of the "last record transferred" and then roll forward through the log to the current position.
The extraction layer program is stopped, started and monitored through the Windows Management facilities. The Home terminal process could be started as part of the nodes cold load facilities.
To aid batch schedule problem diagnosis, a search screen has also been implemented. Users are able to submit a number of parameters into a search query and view the results instantly.
ITANIUM
Insider Technologies Limited is registered with HP as a member of the Itanium validation program, enabling ITL to validate solutions and ensure the solution in readiness by First Customer Ship (FCS).
ITL is also a member of the NSAA (NonStop Advanced Architecture) group.
’Go Interactive’ with the ITL Product Suite
Utilising ‘WebEx’ technology, Insider Technologies can share applications with prospects, customers and partners. This enables Insider to recreate the experience of a face-to-face meeting by allowing all participants to view the same document, browser or application. It also enables prospects and customers to have a personal demonstration of Insider’s solutions in which they can actively participate, ask questions through a chat forum and visually highlight areas that need clarification.
As well as an interactive walk-through, a ‘flash’ demonstration can be downloaded for a number of the ITL products from their website:
http://www.insidertech.co.uk/product_demonstrations.html
Reflex ‘User Group’ Meeting
The next Reflex User Group meeting is scheduled for 3rd February 2005, at LloydsTSB in London. Invites will be sent in due course to ITL’s Reflex / MultiBatch customer base.
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Introducing Spectra
Greetings Tandem Users,
We are pleased to introduce you to SPECTRA, an international dealer that buys Compaq/Tandem Himalaya S7400, S7600, S70,000 S72,000 S74000, S76000, S86000. To that end, we are interested to purchase any surplus or residual Compaq/Tandem equipment you may have available.
Please call SPECTRA at (714)970-7000 or email (info@spectra.com ) a configuration of the available equipment you wish to sell and we'll respond to your request in timely fashion. To learn more about SPECTRA, please visit www.spectra.com and print (.pdf spectra flyer 228Kb) (.doc spectra flyer 397Kb) for your files.
In closing, we respectfully request that you retain our contact information for future reference for any other data processing or communication equipment opportunities that may arise in the future. Should you have any questions, please feel free to call, otherwise; we again, thank you for your interest in SPECTRA and look forward to our future communication.
All the Best!
Johnny Tourino, VP
SPECTRA 
(714) 970-7000, X-309
(714) 970-7095, FAX
www.spectra.com
johnny@spectra.com 
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Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota currently has an employment opportunity available with the department of Enterprise System & Services/Information Systems Resources. This position will support database development efforts within the Division of Information Systems Resources. Primary responsibilities include all facets of Database Administration activities on the HP NonStop platform, including database backup, data recovery, database design, data structure specifications, data replication, database performance, and file maintenance, as well as the development of scripts, procedures, and triggers for performing these tasks. This position does also provide support for application developers in database usage, performance, and query analysis, adhering to standards of database design and usage.
For More information please go here.
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ITUG Hot News
ITUG Hot News
24 January, 2005

1. 2005 ITUG Membership Renewals 
http://www.itug.org 
2. ITUG Europe 2005 Exhibit and Sponsorship
http://www.itug.org 
3. ITUG Europe 2005
http://www.itug.org 
4. ITUG Summit 2005 
http://www.itug.org 
5. ITUG NonStop Availability Award
http://www.itug.org

6. Instapoll
http://www.itug.org

7. RUG Update
BITUG: http://www.bitug.com/ 
FTUG: http://www.ftug.org/
INUG: http://itug.org/regions/inug.cfm
MCTUG: http://itug.org/regions/mctug.cfm
N2TUG: http://itug.org/regions/n2tug.cfm
NCTUG: http://itug.org/regions/nctug.cfm
SATUG: http://www.satug.org/

RUG & SIG Calendar
http://www.itug.org/regions/sig-rug-cal.cfm 
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1. 2005 ITUG Membership Renewal Campaign 

If you have not already done so, now is the time to renew your membership through the end of 2005 with ITUG! Continue enjoying benefits that include:
·	A subscription to The Connection ($85 value), ITUG’s bimonthly award-winning journal 
·	Registration discounts to the 2005 ITUG European Conference & the 2005 ITUG Summit 
·	Access to ITUGLIB, a library of software utilities 
·	Opportunity to participate in NonStop Community Special Interest Groups 
·	ITUG Online Advocacy - Addressing NonStop product and service issues with HP 
·	Access to Members-only segments of ITUG Online, including conference proceedings 
·	Opportunity to share perspectives on special interests and specific challenges through ITUG’s online 24-hour discussion forums 
·	Access to Regional User Groups (RUGs) 
·	Opportunities to enhance your professional skills by participating as an ITUG volunteer leader and more! 
If you would like to extend your membership with ITUG for another year beyond 2005, we are excited to continue the popular two-year membership offer, which provides additional savings for corporate, individual and vendor members. 
To confirm your membership status or renew today, please contact ITUG HQ at +1.312.321.6851 or by email at itug@itug.org .

2. ITUG Europe 2005 Exhibit and Sponsorship

Exhibit and sponsorship options are now available; please contact Sara Matthys at smatthys@smithbucklin.com for more information www.itug.org
3. ITUG Europe 2005 
Registration is now live for ITUG Europe 2005. Visit the ITUG Web site(www.itug.org) for more information! 
4. ITUG Summit 2005 
Plan to attend ITUG Summit 2005, 23-27 October in San Jose, California. Registration is now open. Save budget dollars by registering by 31 May for only $995, a $400 savings off the full registration price! Visit www.itug.org and register now!
5. ITUG NonStop Availability Award

It’s time to enter the 2005 ITUG NonStop Availability Award! The ITUG NonStop Availability Award is proof to your customers and employees that availability matters to you.
The six-month measurement period for the recognition program begins 1 January 2005 and ends 30 June 2005. If you are interested in signing up for the contest, please send an e-mail to Meredith Estes as soon as possible (mestes@smithbucklin.com), giving your company name, contact name, e-mail address, and mail address.
More details are also available on the ITUG web site: http://www.itug.org 
6. Instapoll

The latest ITUG Instapoll is looking for your input. Please visit the ITUG home page to provide your opinion (http://www.itug.org/). 
If free Certification Exams are offered onsite at the 2005 ITUG European Conference in May in Berlin, do you plan on taking a NonStop Systems Certification exam?
- Yes, I would like to take a NonStop Systems Certification exam at the 2005 ITUG European Conference.
- No, I will not be taking a NonStop Systems Certification exam at the 2005 ITUG European Conference. 
The latest HP Instapoll is also available for your input. You can access this instapoll through the ITUG web site http://www.itug.org.
If you are a NonStop RDF (Remote Data Facility) user, what has been your experience with failover time?
- We fail over in less than one minute.
- We fail over in less than ten minutes.
- We fail over in less than an hour.
- We fail over in less than four hours.
- We fail over in less than eight hours.
- We fail over in more than eight hours.
- We have never had to failover.
- We are not an RDF user.

7. RUG Update

BITUG: The British Isles Tandem Users Group will be holding a Middleware SIG meeting on 26 January at the HP office in London. This group is also preparing for their annual event, to be held in Wokefield Park, Reading on 7-9 March 2005. Details about the agenda will be available soon on their web site: http://www.bitug.com/ 
FTUG: The French Tandem Users Group will be holding their next meeting at La Defense in Paris on 10 March 2005. Further details about the meeting will be available soon on their web site: http://www.ftug.org/ 
INUG: The Iberian NonStop Users Group will be holding their next meeting on 3 March at the HP office in Madrid. Visit the web site to voice your opinion on the meeting topic: http://itug.org/regions/inug.cfm 
MCTUG: The Mid-Continent States User Group will be sponsoring a free Education day tomorrow, 25 January, at the HP office in Overland Park, Kansas. The group will also hold their next meeting the following day on 26 January. The group will also be. Details about the agenda will be available soon on their web site: http://itug.org/regions/mctug.cfm 
N2TUG: Mark your calendars for the next meeting of the North Texas and Oklahoma Users Group. The meeting will be held on 18 March 2005 and the topic will be Systems Management and Monitoring Solutions. Details about the agenda will be available soon on their web site: http://itug.org/regions/n2tug.cfm 
NCTUG: NCTUG (Northern California Tandem Users Group) will be holding their next meeting on 27 January at the HP office in Cupertino. Participants will hear HP updates as well as a presentation from Terry Simonds of GoldenGate. Abstracts of the presentations are now available on their web site: http://itug.org/regions/nctug.cfm 
SATUG: The 5th annual SATUG Conference will be held in the Emerald Safari Resort and Casino on the 22nd and 23rd of February 2005, followed by a free HP sponsored training day on the 24th. Details about the event, including an agenda and vendor synopses are available on their web site: http://www.satug.org/ 
RUG & SIG Calendar
For a complete look at the 2005 calendar, please visit: http://www.itug.org/regions/sig-rug-cal.
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EBUG
EBUG are proud to announce the location for the 2005 conference as Malta. Our home away from home will be the Westin Dragonara resort from the 10th to the 13th of May 2005.
For more information please visit http://www.ebug.org.uk/mta/mta_main.php
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Employment
For information on the roles available please go to Tandemworld
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