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Now we are all Romans

edit ronknowling 2007-03-13 18:34 UTC 1  comment  ·  ·  ·

I just got an email from our IT dept. saying that Sirsi-Dynix is suspending plans to upgrade Horizon users to the 8.0 version. Instead we will all be moving to their new platform "Rome". This is confirmed in a press release on their webpage.

The email states,

Rome is built on the architecture of the industry-standard Unicorn Library
Management System - with its record of stability, quality, and performance -
and will include an impressive set of new solutions created as part of
Horizon 8.0/Corinthian development. The first release of Rome will be
available in the fourth quarter of this year. The target time for the second
release is late 2008.

I am not sure what this means for us in the NL public Libraries except that after spending $250,000 in 5 years we will have to pony up another chunk of change, do a wack of new training, buy new equipment (again)  if we are going to go on to "Rome". I guess the question is "Do all roads lead to Rome"?.

Comment #1 — Slavko Manojlovich

2007-03-14 21:23:19

 

Who made the decision at the NL Public Libraries to go with Horizon rather than Unicorn when both the University and Community Colleges were both Unicorn sites? The population of the province continues to decline and there is no reason why a single ILS on one server could not satisfy the needs of all of our users. To make matters worse, public library users, who are also community college and university students, are forced to learn two different interfaces provided by the same vendor.

Slavko Manojlovich
Associate University Librarian (IT)
Memorial University

 

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