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Our new director agreed to merge our Horizon system into an existing Symphony system. We have been live for a week now, and from what I have seen Symphony is a big step backwards.. Yep, Vista Equity partners definitely maximized their profits by extending the life cycle of the lesser of two products. Ease of use just doesn't exist in Symphony like it did in Horizon. What only took a click or two in Horizon involves opening and closing several windows. As for closing windows, you have to click on… Continue

Friday I went to several of the SirsiDynix presentations. Here is what I heard, and some discussions between the talks also

1. API - Good investment : this presentation discussed the use of the API to create apps to safely view and edit data in the database. Using the API would allow editing of data in either the "embedded" oracle, or the full version. What we were also told, was that if we didn't get training for using the API, we would not get documentation for the API, or for the

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Went to the 7.4 enhancements talk, the upgrade looks promising. SD claims to have 350 bug fixes wrapped into this upgrade and even more bug fixes for the HIP upgrade. I haven't had a chance to ask if they have fixed circulation so that the blocks screen shows up before the update patron screen, so that you can see if a borrower has a clean record before you renew their card....

The Symphony upgrade presentation was only informative if you haven't been through a migration before.

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Day one started with a big surprise as SirsiDynix CEO made the announcement that the move from Horizon to Symphony would be treated as an upgrade, not a migration. Making the move to Symphony relatively free for any Horizon Library. (If you want additional training or additional modules, there will be a cost involved. There are also other conditions.)

SD is also partnering with Brainware to work on faceted searching for their next portal offering.

Tomorrow I hope to play with Sy

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I was looking at the hotel information for the Westin convention center where I have booked my room and I want to know why these hotels cannot provide free internet service. Yes, I know it cost money for an internet connection and the hardware to support wireless. But, they build all the costs for other amenities into the cost of a room, why can't they jack-up the room cost another dollar for everyone and give us free wireless?

And another thing, I was looking at my room reservation an

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When I first attended the CODI conference, I wasn't sure what to bring for clothing. So, I carried my usual work clothes. (dress pants and dress shirts, because my wife won't let me dress like a "hobo" for work.) I also packed my comfortable clothes.

First morning of the conference, I dressed in the work clothes and headed off to the show. Once there I realized that there is no set dress code. Wear what you need to make it through the day. I wasn't treated diffferently the second day w

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