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Voyager/GFA Development Project
Meeting Minutes--January 4, 2000

Present: Susan Currie, Surinder Ghangas, Lynne Personius, Linda Miller, Pat Schafer

Pat briefed Lynne and Surinder on the conference call Susan, Linda and she had on December 20 with Steve Gilbert, Ann Ward and Chris Brennan from GFA. She verified that Steve understands the scope of the project and that he had received and read the report the committee prepared for Endeavor in October. She reported that Steve is enthusiastic about the project, believes that it is very doable, but mentioned some of the hurdles that he initially anticipates. We explained our concerns regarding location changes in Voyager and Steve expressed some puzzlement with the rigidity of the MFHD location. He indicated that he would not be attending ALA Midwinter in San Antonio, but said that Chris would and would attend the meeting on Sunday with Endeavor representatives and Cornell representatives (Lynne, Susan and Pat). He said that he would come to Cornell for the meeting we are planning after ALA with the person Endeavor assigns to the project. Pat said that she reiterated Surinder's earlier message to Steve that we were discussing a new server, an upgrade to Progress 9 and Data Server software.

The group then discussed the new Sun server that Lynne and Surinder are exploring. Pat said that she had informed the Library Annex Steering Committee several months ago that we would probably need a new server for a variety of reasons. These include:

1. The database is growing faster than anticipated, largely due to the Mann temporary move of 220,000 items off-site.
2. The Voyager interface with the GFA inventory control system will add to the load on the server. For example, users will expect 24/7 access.
3. The interface with Oracle will require the installation of Data Server which will also add to the load on the server.
4. The GFA upgrade to Progress 9 will also generate a greater load on the server since it means that the release of database will be a much larger product.

All agreed that a new server was essential in order to go forward with the interface development. Lynne said that she hoped to have a quote by the end of the week. Pat said that she was hopeful that the Annex Project budget would support the cost and that the Steering Committee would support the use of the funds for that purpose. The group agreed on the goal of installing the equipment by March in anticipation of the 2000 release, which is necessary for the interface to work. Surinder then explained how she would set up the new server for testing while running the production system on the current server.

Finally, Pat said that she would coordinate the arrangements for the meeting in San Antonio.

Pat Schafer
Chair

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