RE: Silver release size

["Riggle, Keven" <keven.riggle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

For those that don't know what Roger is talking about.  A notice was
sent out on Good Friday stating most libraries have 1-2 gigabytes (Gb)
assigned to their /iiidb/software partition.  Millennium Silver will
need 3 Gb of space in that partition.  

Planning for future growth at about 20% per year they are asking for a
12 Gb allocation for 2005 and beyond.  Unless we go absolutely hog wild
with enhancements this 12 Gb should last approximately 5 years (or
more).  By that time most of us will probably be considering new
hardware anyway.

I'm guessing the notice was sent out to software only sites or other
sites where III is not responsible for the hardware.

Keven

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Keven Riggle
Systems Librarian
Marquette University Libraries
1415 W. Wisconsin Avenue
P.O. Box 3141
Milwaukee, WI  53201-3141

Phone:  (414) 288-3253
Fax:  (414) 288-7813
Internet:  keven.riggle@xxxxxxxxxx
 

-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Dutcher
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 11:19 AM
To: INNOPAC Users Group
Subject: Silver release size


Hi All

I am a bit intrigued that no one else has addressed the group about this
yet.  Who else got a letter from III that says their system isn't large
enough to go to Silver without new drives.

When we got our system, not that long ago (although I guess that is
relative in computer terms - late 99) we were oversized and are
currently using only about 22% of the capacity.  Now we are told that we
need drives that are 12 times bigger than what we have!

Exactly how large is this release going to be and what are the
improvements that make it such a huge piece of software? (We have looked
at the preliminary enhancements list and it doesn't seem anything
out-of-the-ordinary.) 

We will probably upgrade, but still, we wonder at the size requirement,
and if anyone else has the issue, and what they may plan to do.

We are a turnkey system running on Release 2.3.

Roger Dutcher
Beloit (WI) Public Library



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