Interex EMEA was the

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HP Users Organisation, representing the user community of Hewlett-Packard computers. The Connect User Group Community, formed from the consolidation in May, 2008 of Interex EMEA, Encompass, and ITUG, is the Hewlett-Packard’s largest user community representing more than 50,000 participants.

Overview

The group was organised by NUGs (National User Groups, by

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) and SIGs (Special Interest Groups, by

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). They organised seminars,

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, as well as international travel to IT events. They intended to independently inform their users community and help them to get the maximum from their investments. Their mission was to facilitate the usage of HP-UX, OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, NonStop Kernel &

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on servers &

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produced and supported by Hewlett-Packard. The HP-Interex user groups had no direct affiliations with Hewlett-Packard, but they tried to collaborate with HP to provide their users with an optimum support and they gave feedback about potential future OS content, and users' issues. The group consisted of mainly IT Managers, System Managers,

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s, Application Development Managers and Consultants and promoted the exchange of information and experience between the members, HP and its partners. In general HP-Interex stimulated the IT - Business alignment. Membership advantages are the following, now supported by the

Connect (users group) The Connect User Community is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit association, an independent user community for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Connect is a group of more than 70,000 HP customers, partners and employees. It resulted from the merger in May, ...

: * Access to the group activities * Reduction for training * Communication channel with Hewlett-Packard Management * Join the OpenVMS Hobbyist license project, allowing to run OpenVMS using a free license for private

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usage. * Interact and partner with other members of the organisation * Gather and distribute information via its

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s and support and

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Groups

Related groups are:

DECUS The Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society (DECUS) was an independent computer user group related to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The Connect User Group Community, formed from the consolidation in May, 2008 of DECUS, Encompass, HP- ...

, Compaq Users Organisation (CUO), Encompass, ITUG. Some early and well-known members of DECUS were the late Terry Shannon and John R. Wisniewski.

History

Originally the users group was called

, at the time

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conducted its business in the 1960s - 1990s. When

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acquired Digital in 1998, the users group was baptised as the Compaq Users Organisation (CUO). Finally when Hewlett-Packard acquired

in 2002, CUO was renamed as HP-Interex, although there are still DECUS groups in

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. In the USA, the organisation is represented by the Encompass and ITUG organisation.

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