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Summer 2000

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ALA 2000

Another bumper crop of new products, deals, rumours and other happenings at the first Summer ALA of the new century. Peter Evans reports on all of interest from the windy city.

Headlines from ALA

Sirsi win Brisbane

Sirsi Corporation has been selected for the Brisbane Public Library in Australia replacing their Dynix system.  Other news from Sirsi includes new sites in UK and Amsterdam and the first production site to use the Bath Z39.50 Profile.   details

TLC buys CARL

TLC are again making their mark by buying CARL - and a distributorship deal with CASPR.     details

Pigasus release  Wings 2.1

The latest release of WINGS, adds “Tiers” - library defined routing and links to databases such as Ovid, SilverPlatter.  details

DS top Poll

DS top SOCITM poll for public library software and win Sainsbury archive system.    details

Ron Passmore joins Ex-Libris

Ron Passmore has joined Ex-Libris from epixtech where he headed up the introduction to ASP. His role at Ex Libris will be to realise the ASP model for Ex-Libris. This will make the product more affordable for the smaller library says Passmore.

OCLC signs up ILLIAD

OCLC have chosen the ILLiad software to distribute to its customers. OCLC will become the sole distributors for the software. details

EOSi - new releases of Q and GLAS

Version 3.1 of EOSi’s Q series incorporates Z39.50 client and host software - compliant with version 3 of the standard and the Bath Profiledetails

Late news: netLibrary to float on NASDAQ

netLibrary is to list on NASDAQ priced at around $82M.  details

Endeavor news

Cornell University, Sun and Endeavor to work on next generation digital library. NZ project award and sales.     details

VTLS partnership deals in RFID and ILL

Link-up with Gemplus to sell their RFID systems - to anyone wanting the technology - not just VTLS customers.  An ILL client deal with Pigasus and a “Chameleon Gateway” + more news from VTLS.

SunRay

Sun unveils the successor to Java station. SunRay shines at ALA  details

Innovative’s ALA goodie bag

Innovative released a bunch of neat new technology at ALA - and a first French site. details

Technical Briefs

Linux distributor Caldera to buy SCO - will boost Linux’s appeal.