The Connect User Group Community, formed from the consolidation in May, 2008 of Interex EMEA, Encompass, and ITUG, was the Hewlett-Packard’s largest user community representing more than 50,000 participants.
The HP-Interex user groups had no direct affiliations with Hewlett-Packard, but they tried to collaborate with HP to provide their users with an optimum support and they gave feedback about potential future OS content, and users' issues.
When Compaq acquired Digital in 1998, the users group was baptised as the Compaq Users Organisation (CUO).
Finally, when Hewlett-Packard acquired Compaq in 2002, CUO was renamed as HP-Interex, although there were still DECUS groups in Germany. In the USA, the organisation was represented by the Encompass and ITUG organisation. In 2008, as the result of the merger of multiple related user groups, it got a new name as the Connect user group.
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