Comments on: Spot the difference

By: Martin Musgrove

Martin Musgrove — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:22:33 +0000

Gary Rautenstrauch is a closer who was brought in by Vista Equity Partners to administer the stripping of SIRSIDynix and to sell the pieces to the next bidder. That's what he did in his last job. VEP's "commitment" to the market is zero. SD don't get an option. Most of the suits you will see are puppets. And BTW the number of suits is shrinking as more ships leave the sinking rat.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:19:15 +0000

Spot the difference, um, you live on the wrong side of the pond? Simply not true, Dave, we all know you live on the right side of the pond. SirsiDynix lives on the wrong side :_)

By: Dave Pattern

Dave Pattern — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:03:45 +0000

What's particularly annoying is that second statement seems to imply that the localizations required a huge amount of time, effort and money on the part of the company. My personal recollection is that it used to take one person about a month to do (which would be followed by a few weeks of customer beta testing).

At the December user group meeting, I don't think the company had released details of what 7.4.1 would include. Now I've seen the release notes, it's definitely an upgrade we would have wanted (if only for the important security patches to the OPAC and the Vista support).

I know Gary Rautenstrauch has been invited to the upcoming User Group Conference in Southampton, so hopefully he'll be able to clear up exactly what the commitment to the non-US Horizon customer base actually is.

By: Edith S

Edith S — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:50:42 +0000

That January 2008 message is particularly weird given that we were told Horizon 7.4.1 wouldn't be released internationally at the user group meeting in December 2007!

(as a Unicorn customer I'm not directly affected, but am concerned by this bad treatement of the user base…)