Design Template

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Sílvia Guivernau, CS Librarian, VTLS Europe
Warsaw, 16-17 June 2008
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Current situation

• The vast majority of Polish Virtua users are in
  release 46.x
• Cracow Consortium has already been testing 48.x
  and they are planning to migrate to 48.x in
  August 2008.
• The rest of Polish libraries have plans to
  migrate afterwards.

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The need

• VTLS has always encouraged customers to move to
  the newest version.
• Release 46 is no longer supported by Development.
  No bug fixes and certainly no enhancements will
  be implemented.
• Virtua users should benefit from new
  functionalities and bug fixes included in latest
  releases.

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Backward compatibility

• Polish users no longer need to migrate all at the
  same time.
• Since 46.7.2 two different releases of Virtua
  client can be run in the same machine
  simultaneously.
• The following has been tested
• 46.7.2 48.x
• 46.7.2 49.x
• 48.x 49.x

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Options 48.x

• The first release of 48 (48.0.3) was officially
  announced on February 2007.
• VTLS released other versions of 48 including many
  bug fixes.
• The last 48 release that has been build is 48.1.7
  but development is already working on a 48.1.8.
• Release 48 is very stable and tested by some of
  your colleagues.

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Options 49.x

• NOT Oxford release, it will be a general release
  available to ALL VTLS customers.
• Includes many new and interesting
  functionalities.
• Release 49.x is very stable.
• We are planning to release 49.5 in August 2008.

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Options 50.x

• Pre-release available in August 2008 for the
  IFLA Conference and in September for the EUG
  Meeting.
• General release planned for Winter 2009
• It will include several customizations promised
  to customers.
• And the most voted enhancements from the recent
  Enhancement Voting Session.

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Strategy

• You DONT need to migrate all at the same time.
• You need to decide when is the best moment to
  upgrade.
• Based on that you need to decide to which release
  you will migrate.
• The decision should be made well in advance so we
  can provide you with the software to perform
  testing.
• VTLS and the Polish customers will agree on the
  duration of the testing period and the dates to
  perform the upgrades.

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Strategy

• VTLS encourages all the Polish customers to
  upgrade
• the sooner the better in order to benefit
  from
• the newest features in the newest release.
• VTLS will be happy to assist you on any questions
  you might have and help you plan your upgrades.
• You can contact us at hotline_at_vtlseurope.com.

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Questions?
Thank you!