A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
TO ALL OPENVMS USERS AND PROSPECTIVE USERS:

As you know, the success of any operating system is very reliant on the support and 
training that is available. If companies cannot find qualified individuals or they can't train employees on the operating system, they will either migrate away from that operating system or not select it in the first place. 

At one time, there was a lot of highly qualified OpenVMS talent available. That is no 
longer the case, since people began to perceive OpenVMS as a dead end and went on 
to other platforms. With the recent resurgence of OpenVMS, the biggest complaint is 
that it is virtually impossible to find already qualified OpenVMS professionals. As a 
result, there is an urgent need to provide OpenVMS customers with viable training 
options. When Global Knowledge Networks (GKN) was decertified as a Compaq 
OpenVMS training partner over a year ago in the U.S. and many other parts of the 
world, this need became even greater.

Please allow me to introduce you to PARSEC Group, certified as a Compaq OpenVMS training partner since July 1999. PARSEC Group's history of providing expert open enrollment and onsite OpenVMS training began in 1986. We have provided extremely high quality training courses throughout North America and Europe. 

PARSEC Group has consistently been one of the biggest champions of the OpenVMS 
operating system. Because we believe so strongly in this software, we have kept a 
number of organizations from migrating to other platforms by interacting with their 
management and providing them with high quality OpenVMS training and consulting 
services.

As we all know, there is only one computing solution when it comes to high availability 
computing and that is OpenVMS. When you absolutely positively have to have it up, 
OpenVMS is your answer. In one instance, an OpenVMS system in a railroad company in England has been up for over 17 years nonstop. There are also numerous examples of high availability using OpenVMS in cluster environments. And speaking of clusters, OpenVMS is where it's at. Clusters were pioneered on OpenVMS. Other operating systems say they have clusters, but OpenVMS clusters are light years ahead of any other operating system that claims to have this capability. 

What does this all boil down to? Something that we already know – OpenVMS is the 
best of the best in commercially available operating systems! And PARSEC Group is 
the training partner you can trust to make sure you take maximum advantage of this 
flexible and durable product!

Please check out our web site at www.parsec.com <http://www.parsec.com> or contact us at 1-888-4-PARSEC (1-888-472-7732).

Thanks,

Wayne Sauer
www.parsec.com
sauer@parsec.com
PARSEC Group
405 Urban Street, Suite 100
Lakewood, Colorado 80228

Authorized Compaq Independent Training Partner

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