Re: Why going to a VMS BootCamp?
From: Alan Frisbie (Usenet02_REMOVE_at_Flying-Disk.com)
Date: 03/30/05
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:14:55 -0800
Didier Morandi wrote:
> I may consider to attend the next VMS BootCamp in Nashua in June to
> recover from too many months away from VMS and meet some good friends
> again (http://h71000.www7.hp.com/symposium/index.html?jumpid=symposium)
>
> But I'm wondering what will occur during these five days. Technical
> sessions? DECUS-like Q&A? Drinks? Booths? Chat with Rich Marcello?
>
> Why spend so many $$ without a clue on the benefits of the trip? Or, in
> other words, is the "new" VMS on IPF worth five days?
Since I pay for it out of my own pocket, I think it is the
best VMS value for the dollar (or whatever your local currency
is)! It is like a subset of an old-time DECUS symposium, but
with all the sessions given by the developers.
The sessions will leave you torn between two (or more) excellent
topics. But it is the hallway, lunchtime, and bar conversations
that are sometimes the most valuable. I was having a TCP/IP
problem and mentioned it to the responsible developer. He
whipped out his laptop, logged into his development system,
set up the situation I described, and demonstrated the answer!
The people there (both HP and attendees) are the best of the
best. With the limits on how many people can be accommodated,
this tends to filter out the casual attendees. What is left
are the serious VMS fanatics.
If you are serious about VMS, and you can only go to one symposium
per year, this is the one. Every Bootcamp has given me at
least one nugget of information that was worth the price of
admission, and it's hardly ever something I was looking for.
Alan
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