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Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 1999 01:50:12 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Vendor100 Goes "Full Enterprise" At Warp Expo West

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Note from Peter Skye: This is a copy of the press release we
distributed today to the news media.

Contact: Rollin White (Rollin@scoug.com)
1-562-596-5121 office

Tuesday, August 31, 1999

Press Release - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
____________________________________________________________

Vendor100 Goes "Full Enterprise" At Warp Expo West

Network Platform To Be WiseManager On OS/2

Vendor100 has grown to "Full Enterprise" size and Warp Expo West is
upgrading the entire Vendor100 exhibitor space to a new technology
managed client network.

"You'll be able to walk up to any client system on the network and run
any Vendor100 application," said Rollin White, Chairman of Warp Expo
West. "No guest will have to wait in line for a chance to use a single
dedicated system running a single vendor's software. Everything will
run everywhere."

The entire Vendor100 suite of software from dozens of developers will
be hosted on the newly engineered network, and guests will have the
unique experience of not being restricted to a particular vendor's
machine in order to try their software. The network servers will use
WiseManager from Serenity Systems to manage all the clients.

"WiseManager doesn't use the hard disk in your system," explained Kim
Cheung, Executive Director for Serenity. "You install each application
once at the server, and every client system then uses that copy. And
it's totally configurable for each user. You still have your own
configuration files, your own data files. But it's all stored on the
server."

"There's a big savings here. Most of an application's files never
change, so we only need one server copy. The few small files that do,
such as configuration files, are stored in the user's personal file
space. WiseManager uses the personal file if it exists, or uses the
common file otherwise."

Every network administrator should carefully go over the Vendor100
network that will run continuously during Warp Expo West. The network
build team will be available for questions.

"It's great for us because, if a client machine breaks, we just
replace it, turn on the new one, and boot from the network. We don't
have to install anything, and we're up and running again instantly,"
commented White.

Cheung himself supervised the installation of the dozens of different
software applications on the servers. "It went fast, not much different
from a single client install, and when one vendor sent an upgrade we
only had to upgrade one machine - the server - not every client," said
Cheung. "Suppose we had 50 machines! We'd have to install the upgrade
50 times if we didn't have a managed client network. WiseManager
handles any size network -- up to 64,000 clients."

"We're also going to show how to install this new type of network, and
discuss the cost and security benefits of using diskless workstations,"
Cheung said.

Managed client networks are a bold new technology for OS/2 network
administrators, and every businessman and every OS/2 user with an
interest in networking should make a point of studying and discussing
the Vendor100 network - at Warp Expo West!

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Warp Expo West is free. It will be held on September 18 near
Disneyland in sunny Southern California. All the info is at

http://www.scoug.com/warpexpowest

Sponsored by The Southern California OS/2 User Group.

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