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"?.
