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Endeavor customers were invited to attend this meeting last evening with the EndUser Board and ExLibris Management. The late hour of the meeting may have affected the attendance because only about 20 of us showed up (in addition to the meeting participants). It was scheduled to go for an hour and a half. An hour and 10 minutes into the meeting, introductions were finally completed. We heard from each ExLibris person about their role in the new organization. As you might expect, it was all very upbeat and positive. Of the 20 minutes left to cover the actual agenda, 18 were devoted to sharing information about the forthcoming 2007 EndUser Conference plans (75 sessions planned and since Voyager is the only product left, it will be interested to see what those sessions are about), and an overview of the plans to move both Voyager and Aleph forward. There will be a Voyager 7.0 upgrade. They are still sticking with the WebVoyage for the short term…..

Finally, at 8:28, “product issues” came up on the agenda. I finally had a chance to ask about continued support and the upgrade future for EnCompass (was supposed to be Curator by now) and Meridian. I was able to get confirmation that sites that have not been upgraded to Curator won’t be. This is something we have been trying mightily to find out about since we are in the middle of Digital Forsyth and have a new EnCompass server that we were planning to do a fresh install of Curator on instead of migrating the old version. Meridian will have one more upgrade to 2.0, but nobody was talking about what it entails. They focused on the need for us “legacy” customers to start communications with ExLibris to map out migration plans.

We’ll have alot to discuss on how to move forward once we all get back to campus….