13h00-13h30  

Koffie en welkom

13h30-14h30  

OpenVMS Roadmap Update, by Ken Surplice, Product Manager Business Critical Systems, Enterprise Group EMEA

Within Europe, Middle East and Africa Ken is responsible for product management and business management of mission-critical Integrity servers running OpenVMS and HP-UX applications. He is also heading up HP’s Project Odyssey in the region, where HP is expanding mission-critical IT into Linux and Windows environments.

He has many years of previous experience across small, medium and large systems running a variety of operating systems.

Ken started his IT career in system software in the UK, first providing technical support to customers. In these days, VAX/VMS was at v1.0 and systems had 128K Words. After this, he spent time in pre-sales, working with customers across many industries. Ken progressed to EMEA product marketing, introducing new systems and software and retiring the old while managing the business and promoting customer satisfaction.

Ken is known for his enthusiasm in promoting his HP portfolio to customers, partners and HP field teams. He studied Business Computing at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, graduating with first class honours.

14h30-15h00  

Pauze

15h00-16h15      

Migration Strategies, Pitfalls and Possibilities, by Ray Turner, EMEA Presales Consultant OpenVMS

Ray has worked with DEC equipment since the early 80’s, initially with PDP11/44’s and then later using MINC-11’s. This led to him joining DEC in 1986 as a Field Service engineer and since then has worked in a variety of roles  for DEC/Compaq/HP using and supporting the various platforms that run OpenVMS. He recently joined the EMEA central team from a UK role in 2012 and has since then supported customers

across the EMEA region with their OpenVMS solutions and projects.

His talk deals with migration of OpenVMS application environments to other operating systems such as Windows, Linux/Unix, HP NonStop, and cloud-based environments. Some of the different approaches and methods that can be taken for migration and their relative merits and applicability to particular situations will be discussed, along with ideas for target replacement technologies (compilers, databases, middleware options and user interfaces), use of Open Source software, and possible solutions to some specific technical and non-technical challenges. Recommendations and ideas will be supported where appropriate by reference to specific project examples.

16h15-17h00           HP OpenVMS Migration Design and Experiences, by Colin Butcher, XDelta
                                  Colin Butcher Ceng FBCS has built an international reputation as one of the leading 
                                  systems architects for mission-critical systems.
   

                                  His talk will explore key issues when migrating from OpenVMS

17h00

Borrel