The complete Newsletter is accessible on the Members pages: Volume 11 No 4 in PDF format (368Kb download) [or Word format (352Kb)] 

A Friend in Need

It is good to see a traditional role of the user group appearing from time to time, the mutual support of members for each other. As VME and its superstructure products have matured there has been less of a demand for mutual support but a recent incident reminds us that there can be an occasional need and its good to discover that there are friends out there ready to help. One of our members, PGGM in the Netherlands, sought help a few weeks before Christmas because the licence for  their copy of the Screen Editor, ASE, would expire on 31st December 2005.  Geobuild from whom ASE was licenced had no further interest in the product technically or commercially and could offer no solution.  

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News from the Golden Circle

Anthony Butler brings us up to date on what has been happening in his world recently 

OpenSCL

EBE Computing (Pty) Ltd describes OpenSCL which offers a comprehensive  VME environment on Windows, AIX, and Linux. The company is making available an evaluation CD of the product.

Fujitsu News

Recent Press items from Fujitsu Services report:

Merseyrail has become the first UK Train Operating Company to complete the roll out of STAR –  the ticket issuing system from Fujitsu Services that helps station staff to improve customer service.   The new system has been installed at all of Merseyrail’s 64 stations, which cater for 100,000 passengers carried on 600 train services run in the Liverpool area every week day. .

A recent survey conducted  by YouGov and commissioned by Fujitsu Services has found that web shoppers who consider themselves more secure are beginning to demand better rates from banks as a reward. Almost half (44%) say that banks should reward them for being careful with their personal security online, and a third (33%) think that “security slackers” who are careless with passwords and card details should be penalised by banks.

In October Fujitsu Limited and Software AG delivered a joint offering to help organizations manage integration components within a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).  CentraSiteTM, an open, next generation SOA repository, promotes greater collaboration between business and IT by uniting metadata from service oriented integration products, including Fujitsu's Interstage Business Process ManagerTM and Software AG's Enterprise Service IntegratorTM and Enterprise Information IntegratorTM.

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Have you seen these Marketing Bulletins?

MB/05/010 - November 2005. General Statement on Support of Obsolescent OpenVME Software Products which applies to the UK and Worldwide and formally confirms the Withdrawal of Support Services for the OpenVME related software products listed below, for all Bands and all Platforms, with effect from May 2006.

MB/05/011 - November 2005  General Statement on Support for OpenTI which applies to the UK and Worldwide. Following notification of withdrawal of support for OpenTI by their supplier, Fujitsu is to withdraw support for OpenTI at the end of 2005.  This Marketing Bulletin formally announces the withdrawal of support for OpenTI with effect from 31st December 2005.
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And also .......

The regular Editorial, Chairman's column, titbits from the newsletter Archives for 1985 and  a tailpiece.

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