Axios Products, Inc., invites you to its first SmartProduction® Batch Analysis and Tuning User Group Meeting on Monday, December 8, 2003 at 1:00 pm. Product specialists will discuss Batch performance and tuning issues addressed by SmartProduction, as well as successful implementation techniques and strategies. Lunch will be provided, along with presentations and interactive discussion. SmartProduction customers, and those interested in dramatically improving Batch performance while reducing processing costs at their shop, are welcome! To reserve your space at this event, or for more information, contact the Marketing Department at Axios Products, Inc., (631) 979-0100 or e-mail info@axiosproducts.com.

BMC Software's Annual Performance Conference features the latest products and technology from BMC Software for performance, and capacity management of enterprise-wide applications and platforms. Members of BMC Software's professional and technical staff, together with key users, will present how BMC solutions ensure the performance and availability of business-critical applications in today's environment. You will learn how to proactively identify system bottlenecks; monitor, manage and automate system performance; manage the capacity of existing and future systems, and much more. If you are an existing user, or if you are interested in adding performance management to your environment, you don't want to miss this event! Start your week off right at our Annual Performance Conference!

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), the world's leader in cross-platform enterprise management solutions, looks forward to seeing you at CMG 2003 in Dallas this year. Please join your performance management and capacity planning peers at our annual CA Day at CMG, Monday, December 8th, for a day full of informative sessions that will help you meet the challenges you'll face in managing tomorrow's dynamic on-demand computing environment.

For the latest information on CA Day, beginning in October, please go to ca.com/events, click on Free Seminar, and click on the link at Free Seminar: CA Day at CMG

Compuware invites you to attend the annual Vantage and STROBE user group meeting on Monday, December 8 in conjunction with the CMG 2003 Conference. Whether you want to share tips and techniques or learn from the experiences of other users, please save the date and make plans to attend this informative full-day meeting. Compuware products optimize application performance throughout the enterprise and help you determine the precise nature and causes of performance bottlenecks. The agenda will cover:

• New product features
• Customer case studies
• Demonstrations of distributed and mainframe products
• Q&A/Discussion session

Demand Technology Software, the developer of NTSMF, is proud to sponsor its fifth annual Windows Performance Symposium, an all-day event devoted exclusively to a discussion of topics of interest to CMGers responsible for managing Microsoft Windows 2003 Server environments. The full agenda for this event will not be finalized until this fall so that we can showcase the latest technology and developments, including the dawn of inexpensive 64-bit enterprise computing. Please check the conference Final Agenda for complete details. However, attendees can be assured, as in years past, there will be no vendor marketing fluff! Capacity planning for Microsoft-powered web sites and messaging systems and server consolidation best practices are among the topics planned.

ISM's PerfMan™ performance and capacity management offerings provide a sophisticated, yet easy to use environment to bring clarity to even the most complex multi-platform data centers; and for 16 years has assured IT agility.

Customers join ISM each year at CMG to meet other users, interact with PerfMan designers and developers, understand new PerfMan features, and learn about PerfMan's exciting enhancements and futures (i.e. PerfMan for Oracle and enhancing its support of z/OS and IBM's new z990).

A general session with information for all will be followed by dual-track sessions (z/Architecture & Linux/UNIX/Windows). These sessions will be followed by lunch.

If you'd like to attend ISM's 2003 User Group Meeting, please pre-register at our website: http://www.perfman.com/CMGregistration

All our customers are invited to meet with our product architect and support staff for an interesting day of discussions on ThruPut Manager now and in the future. We will demonstrate, using our z/OS-on-a-laptop, some of the new features of ThruPut Manager you may want to take advantage of.

To reserve your space in advance, or for more information, please contact Martin Wills of MVS Solutions at 905-940-9404 or email CMGUser@mvssol.com

• Update on new features of ThruPut Manager
• Feedback on enhancement requests
• Customer presentations on the use of TM
• Open discussion of TM topics of general interest

Join us on Monday, Dec. 8th from 9am to 4pm to learn how SAS(r) IT Management Solutions help customers measure, manage and understand their IT environments.

• Alignment of IT with corporate goals.
• Utilization and availability of IT resources.
• Capacity of hardware, software and network.
• Allocation of IT costs to the business units.
• Service level agreement compliance with customers.

Discover how SAS IT Management Solutions can help you communicate and manage your service level agreements and align valuable IT resources with corporate goals.

Join TeamQuest at its annual CMG Users Meeting on Monday, December 8 from 1 to 5 p.m. Customers and anyone interested in performance management and capacity planning are invited to hear:

• TeamQuest technical staff and customers address specific performance management and capacity planning issues.
• Product managers and engineers discuss the latest release of TeamQuest Performance Software and a road map for the future.
• Customers who have saved significant dollars using capacity planning to predict provisioning requirements.
• About features, like the new centralized administration and the web-based administration facility.

TeamQuest looks forward to direct feedback and input so we can best meet your capacity planning needs.

Wily Technology is pleased to host a Customer Forum meeting at CMG on December 8, 2003 in Dallas, Texas

If you are planning on attending CMG2003, this session will offer you the same great benefits as Wily's customer conference without much additional travel, and cost. This information-packed one-day session offers you an invaluable opportunity to interact with your peers, share your ideas and experiences and meet with Wily experts. The forum are FREE to licensed Wily customers and invited guests. But you must register prior to the event. Please visit our Regional Customer Forum Website as advanced registration is required.