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June 21, 2005

ILS consolidation

There are going to be some fun vendors' roundtables at ALA:

ILS Vendors Sirsi and Dynix To Merge

Sirsi Corporation and Dynix Corporation—the second largest and largest ILS vendors—announced this morning that they will merge. The new SirsiDynix, which will be the largest ILS vendor by far, will continue full development and support of both Sirsi’s Unicorn and Dynix’s Horizon 8.x/Corinthian.

Planning is underway to integrate worldwide operations between the two companies. As SirsiDynix, the company will have approximately 4000 installations around the world, with over 20,000 library outlets. In 2004, Dynix led the industry in new sales, followed closely by Sirsi, which tied for second with Innovative Interfaces. Both companies are privately held; terms were not disclosed.

Patrick Sommers, Sirsi’s CEO, described the new company as a "merger of equals." Sommers will step up to become CEO of SirsiDynix while Jack Blount, Dynix’s CEO, will be retained as a consultant.

Posted by misseli at June 21, 2005 01:01 PM

Comments

Hi. As an Englishman I'm somewhat nervous about the addition of Americanism to our language. So, I'd be grateful if you could (or anyone)/ would explain to me the meaning of 'Happy Fourth of July'?

Why the Instruction or Quest to ‘Have a Happy…..’ anything?
What would the definition of an ‘Unhappy Halloween’ be?

We have slowly, then in what seems like the rush of a single generation, adopted 'Halloween' - with its American-isms, including the call for a - 'Happy Halloween' - without the speakers knowing what that means, or even what Halloween is about .....and I’m not just talking about ‘Kids’ either.

Personally, I find it (the 'have a Happy ...anything' - that isn't 'personal') leaves an unpalatable taste with me, like the ugly word, 'Partying.' With its incessant usage, it seem to me to leave little or no room to actually celebrate anything you really want to or - 'need to.'

Sorry to belabour my points, BUT, similarly, the terms 'amazing' ....and 'awesome,' their over usage wears out the significance of the words and their power; this demotes them and leaves us with voids to fill should we ever need to express something personally significant.

Should I always express my experience of time spent in the company of others as ‘lovely’ or ‘amazing,’ I have nothing to give me a sense of ‘power’ when I want to express my pleasure in having a lovely time, or that my experience of another was amazing.’

Oooooh,
Myyyyyy,
Gawwwwwd!
I have gone on at length, my apologies.
Rae.

Posted by: Rae at July 2, 2005 03:24 PM