HP-Interex

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HP-Interex is the EMEA HP Users Organisation, representing the users community of Hewlett-Packard computers.

1 Overview
2 Groups
3 History
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Overview

They are organised in NUGs (National User Groups, by country) and SIGs (Special Interest Groups, by product).

They organise seminars, training, information exchange, as well as international travel to IT events. They intend to independently inform their users community and help them to get the maximum from their investments. Their mission is to facilitate the usage of HP-UX, OpenVMS, Tru64, NonStop Kernel & Linux on servers & Networks produced and supported by HP.

The HP-Interex user groups have no direct affiliations with HP, but they try to collaborate with HP to provide their users with an optimum support and they try to give feedback about potential future OS content, and users issues.

The group consists of mainly IT Managers, System Managers, System Administrators, Application Development Managers and Consultants and promotes the exchange of information and experience between the members, HP and its partners.

In general HP-Interex stimulates the IT - Business alignment.

Membership advantages are the following:

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 non-profit hobby usage.
Interact and partner with other members of the organisation
Gather and distribute information via its web sites and support and discussion forums.

[edit] Groups

Related groups are DECUS, CUO, Encompass, ITUG.

Some early and well-known members of DECUS were Terry Shannon, John R. Wisniewski.

[edit] History

Originally the users group was called DECUS at the time Digital Equipment Corporation conducted its business in the 1960's - 1980's.

When Compaq acquired Digital in 1998, the users group was baptised into CUO, the Compaq Users Organisation.

Finally when HP acquired Compaq in 2002, CUO was renamed into HP-Interex, although there are still DECUS groups like in Germany. In the USA, the organisation is represented by the Encompass and ITUG organisation.