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                 Desktop Integration Local User's Group (DILUG)
                            Thursday, March 7, 1996
                              11:00AM until 2:00PM
                         Digital Equipment Corporation
                                 6406 Ivy Lane
                                 Greenbelt, MD

                 TOPIC - Client/server Application Development

          11:00-11:15 LUG business and introductions

          11:15-11:30 Client/Server overview presentation (Debbie Whitehurst)

            A brief overview of C/S technologies and implications
                    
          11:30-12:15 C/S Successs Story (Patty Petry)  
            This is a presentation and brief demonstration of a Mobile
            desktop application for patient admission / assessment. 
            Mobile, pen-based laptops, running a GUI interacted with
            an existing patient database.  The presentation will
            overview the business problem, the architecture of the
            solution, its implementation, lessons learned, and
            concludes with a brief demonstration of the GUI.

          12:15-12:45 Lunch/Break

          12:45-13:45 C/S Success Story (Dave Kasakitis) 
            This is a presentation of a C/S pilot to move an existing
            VAX/VMS based application to 3 a tier, standards based,
            C/S solution.  The core middleware was OSF's Distributed
            Computing Environment (DCE).  The pilot had to demonstrate 
            access to legacy (VMS) data and concurrent access to a new 
            RDBMS.  The pilot also had to demonstrate source code 
            portability from VAX/VMS to Alpha/Digital UNIX.  I.e., a
            smooth migration from VMS to Digital UNIX was possible. 
            Also key issue was creating both a PC/GUI based client
            front end, along with a compatible VT terminal front end
            that would use the same server software.  The following
            are overviewed:  business problem, overall solution, DCE,
            and lessons learned.

          13:45 - 14:00 Wrap-up/close


          Last month, John McMahon and Larry Killgallen did excellent
          presentations on 'PCs, TCP/IP, NETSEC, and Other Industry
          Acronyms' (John) and 'Hazards of Single Sign-On' (Larry).
          If you missed the meeting, we will have copies of their
          presentations available at the meeting.  John has also made
          his presentation available on his web page at
          http://www.io.com/~fuzzface/dilug.

                                Future meetings:
          May 2     Pathworks V6 (planned)

          Since lunch (probably pizza and soda) will be provided,
          please register with Mimi Smyles at (301)918-5809 and
          specify how many people from your organization will be
          attending.


          Directions:
          Take the Beltway to Exit 23 (Kenilworth Ave.).  At Exit 23,
          take the Greenbelt exit (bear left from the inner loop or
          right from the outer loop).  Make the second left onto Ivy
          Lane, then make the first right into Capital Office Park.
          Digital is in the blue building on the right.

          Best Regards...the DILUG steering committee
     Debbie Driesman  (301)794-2822     ddriesma@csc.com
     Ron Kaltenbaugh  (703)205-3120     rkaltenbaugh@logicon.com
     Gregg Pentecost  (202)797-6228     pentecost@brook.edu
     Jim Pounds       (202)622-2121     jim.pounds@treas.sprint.com
     Dave Baker       (301)918-5284     dave.baker@cop.mts.dec.com

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