RE: CLN RFP Vendor Selection - Announcement
JAMES MICHAEL KUSACK (KUSACK@SCSUD.CTSTATEU.EDU)
Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:13:11 -0400
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:13:11 -0400
Message-Id: <970929101533.20245d16@SCSUD.CTSTATEU.EDU>
From: JAMES MICHAEL KUSACK <KUSACK@SCSUD.CTSTATEU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: RE: CLN RFP Vendor Selection - Announcement
Bill Sullivan wrote:
> The Library Corporation (based in Inwood, West Virginia) was selected to =
>be the vendor who will supply the Information Gateway and Statewide =
>Bibliographic Database services for the Connecticut Library Network, as =
>specified in the CLN RFP. The decision to move forward with contract =
>negotiation and developing an implementation plan was approved by both =
>the CLN and State Library Boards.
Bill, could you fill us in a bit concerning TLC's response to the RFP?
Rumor has it that their plan is based on development of a distributed processing
model and that TCP/IP thin clients are in the plan. Are there existing
implementations out there using TLC's planned scheme?
Thanks! Keep up the good work.
JMK
[Background: TLC is the company that vends Bibliofile and other good stuff.
TCP/IP is the core technology in the Internet WWW system. JMK]z