[37] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Enterprise Printing Delivery, Meeting Notes, 1/21/2000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mary Ellen Bushnell)
Fri Jan 21 11:21:43 2000
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:21:34 -0500
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From: Mary Ellen Bushnell <bushnell@MIT.EDU>
Attending: Dave, Rocklyn, Cecilia, Kip, Mary Ellen. Mike is on vacation in
Japan
REVIEW of MOORE PRESENTATION
Spent the meeting reviewing the architecture described by the Moore
consultants.
There are many advantages to this model:
1. Takes queue management and printer management off the mainframe and puts
it into a print server that is directly attached to the network.
2. Makes printing truly network based, distributed, and flexible.
3. Points the way to reducing the size and cost of the mainframe as legacy
systems move off it.
4. Accommodates migration of mainframe printing to network-based printing.
5. Depending on what printers (e.g., Xerox) are attached to the network,
may be able to obviate the need for products that "transform" postscript to
IPDS and other formats.
6. The two products (InfoPrint and Barr Systems) can work together.
7. There is no conflict with Athena Print Services.
8. The model appears to be able to accommodate SAP printing now handled by APS.
There are three possible drawbacks:
1. Neither AIX (InfoPrint) or NT (Barr Systems) for enterprise print
service are expected to be acceptable to Integration.
2. Security doesn't seem to be a strong feature in this architecture or
these products.
3. Print resolution may be problematic.
Dave advocates for looking at one or two other architectures just to have a
basis for comparison. He's been in touch with Xerox and will talk to them
again to get more concrete information about their printers. Likewise, IBM
for more in depth information about InfoPrint.
ACTION ITEMS:
Cecilia/Kip: Begin to prepare a business model.
Rocklyn: Add some detail to the Work Breakdown Structure.
Dave:
Pursue Xerox for more information
Look more in depth at InfoPrint and Barr Systems
Catch up on the Status Report
MEB: Maintain project documentation, meeting notes, etc.
