[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: King County plans--clarification?

[Lori Ayre]

Any good go live plan will have a fallback option. But apart from  
that, I'd say that's a whole lotta FUD (or wishful thinking). I've  
been involved in this KCLS process for over a year and have never  
heard anything about running parallel systems. The whole point is to  
make everything easier--especially for staff. And running two systems  
is not easy.

Once they pull the switch and have it fully in production, I cannot  
imagine a scenario in which they'd choose to go back.  If you heard  
Bill Ptacek at Evergreen 2010, you'd know how committed they are to  
this process.

Lori Ayre

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On Jun 1, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Bill Hudson  
<bhudson at lancasterlibraries.org> wrote:

> Greetings all,
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> We recently had a visit by one of the senior executives of our  
> current ILS vendor. We’ve made it quite clear to them that we are cl 
> osely following the development of the Evergreen system and can defi 
> nitely envision joining an effort to deploy Evergreen statewide in PA.
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> During the conversation, the exec said that King County plans to run  
> their current ILS (Millennium) in tandem with the Evergreen system  
> they are bringing online in September, AND that it was not a given  
> that King County would deploy Evergreen as their sole ILS in the  
> near term. I wasn’t sure if this was FUD or if King County is (contr 
> ary to what I’d heard) not planning to migrate from their current IL 
> S to Evergreen in the near term.
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> Can someone on this list provide any additional info as to what King  
> County plans to do? Because they are one of the largest library  
> systems in the country, many of us  on the sidelines are watching  
> this situation as a harbinger of how well or poorly the current  
> Evergreen incarnation works for a really big consolidated system .
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> Thanks,
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> BH
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> Bill Hudson
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