MVMRUG January 28, 2000 Meeting

Our first MVMRUG meeting of the new millenium was held in Columbus Ohio, the home of the Ohio State Buckeyes , COSI and the Columbus Zoo..

A continental breakfast was served and everyone had the opportunity to see some "old" friends as well as greet some new "vmers".

Location: Ross Products Division, Abbott Laboratories, Inc.
Columbus, Ohio

Ross Products Division was the perfect host with excellent facilities, a very comfortable meeting room with all the amenities and easy access to phones and terminals. Not only did they offer us lunch coupons for their wonderful cafeteria foods, but juice, coffee, snacks and desserts were always available in the meeting room. And a tour of their Data Center topped the day for those who were available after the meeting.

A very special "thank you" to Ross Products Division, Abbott Laboratories, Inc. for their wonderful hospitality!

Thursday Night Dinner & Social

The next time you are in Columbus and want some excellent seafood, why not visit "The Ocean Club" which is located in Easton Town Center.

In addition to the normal menu faire (soups, salads, appetizers, entrees and desserts) they also have "Simply Raw", a selection of chilled oysters, sushi, tuna and shrimp cocktails. "Ginger Crusted Salmon", "Gulf Coast Swordfish" and "Yellowfin Tuna Ponzu" topped the "Ocean's Club" menu as specialties of the house. The food was wonderful, artfully presented and the service was excellent. Everyone enjoyed the restaurant immensely!

Agenda:

Here is an overview of the presentations:

1. Doing GUI Programming on VM/ESA Using NetRexx
   Chuck Morse, IBM Washington Systems Center

2. Fast Web Serving on VM
   Barton Robinson, Velocity Software, Inc.

3. VM Displaces Sun: An E-mail Gateway Project
   Phil Smith, III, Sterling Software

4. Y2K Post-mortem: VM shop experiences over New Year's weekend
   Jim Strauch, The Timken Company

A warm welcome to the following first time attendees:

1. Myron Marion, Sabre
2. Natalie Tsukerman, Navigant Consulting, Inc.

A special "Thank You" to each of our speakers:

1. Chuck Morse, IBM Washington Systems Center
2. Barton Robinson, Velocity Software, Inc.
3. Phil Smith, III, Sterling Software
4. Jim Strauch, The Timken Company

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Last revised: March 13, 2000 by J. P. Ake