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HP Interex EMEA forms new user group
IT Europa
February 15, 2008

HP User Groups Plan Merger
Processor Magazine
February 15, 2008

Three HP user groups—Encompass, HP-Interex EMEA, and the International Tandem User Group—plan to merge in an effort to improve their membership and programs. The three groups, each representing a different community of HP product users, work with HP to provide user feedback with the goal of improving customer service and product features.

HP User Groups Looking to Consolidate
eWeek
By Scott Ferguson
February 8, 2008

In April, three of Hewlett-Packard’s user groups will vote on a plan that will combine them into a 50,000-member organization.

A trio of Hewlett-Packard user groups are looking to consolidate into one organization.

In April, the membership of Encompass, the largest of the three, HP Interex EMEA and ITUG will vote on a plan that will combine the three user groups into a single, 50,000-member organization.

HP Data Storage User Groups Band Together
Searchstorage.com
By Editor
February 8, 2008

HP user groups Encompass, HP Interex EMEA and ITUG jointly announced their intent to consolidate into one worldwide group this week. The combined organization will feature new membership offerings and will operate under a new name that has not been determined yet. The merger is contingent upon voting of the memberships of the current organizations, which will take place this spring. The new organization plans to automatically honor any existing memberships.

One user group ring bands them all
3000 News (Blog)
February 7, 2008

HP user group Encompass took a big step toward the ultimate alliance of HP enterprise computer customers this week, when the largest North American HP user group announced it will unite with two of the others. Now Encompass, the Tandem group ITUG, and HP-Interex Europe/Middle East/Africa will all work together, bound under a single group which will have a new name announced sometime this year.

HP User Groups Join Forces - Encompass, ITUG, and HP Interex EMEA Plan to Merge and Share Resources to Serve 50,000 Members
ARN
By Denise Dubie
February 6, 2008

There is strength in numbers, according to the leaders of three HP user groups, who this week announced they will seek approval to join forces and pool resources to better serve more than 50,000 members worldwide.

HP User Groups Join Forces - Encompass, ITUG, and HP Interex EMEA Plan to Merge and Share Resources to Serve 50,000 Members
Network World
By Denise Dubie
February 6, 2008

HP User Groups Plan Merger to Increase Clout, Lower Costs
IT World
By Patrick Thibodeau
February 5, 2008

Three independent Hewlett-Packard user groups said Monday that they plan to merge into a single organization with more than 50,000 members in an effort to increase training opportunities and their clout with the IT vendor.

The groups also hope to reduce costs while using their combined resources to reach younger users of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s technologies through social networks and other Web 2.0 tools.

HP User Groups Plan Merger to Increase Clout, Lower Costs
Computerworld
By Patrick Thibodeau
February 4, 2008

The groups also hope to reduce costs while using their combined resources to reach younger users of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s technologies through social networks and other Web 2.0 tools.

HP User Groups Mull Merger
IT Wire
By Stephen Withers
February 4, 2008

Today's Hewlett-Packard is the result of several mergers, but the company's customers still belong to user groups reflecting the old structures. That may be about to change. Compaq acquired Tandem (the 'NonStop' company); Compaq acquired Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC); and Hewlett-Packard and Compaq merged. But the user groups that had grown up around those companies largely continued as separate entities.