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L 2 M E M O R A N D U M To Orange County Board of Commissioners John Link, County Manager From: Keith Brooks, Data Processing Director Re Updated Status of Data Processing Date: August 3, 1995 1. Meeting with UNC staff In late June, County staff and Commissioner Willhoit met with staff from UNC's Administrative Data Processing. Attending from the County in addition to Don Willhoit was Keith Brooks, DP Manager; Jane Sparks, Systems Analyst; Don Webster, Microcomputer Specialist; and Rod Visser, Assistant County Manager. Present from UNC was David Jenkins, Director of Administrative Data Processing; Joel Dunn, Manager Communications; and David Laudicina, Systems and Programming Manager. The County provided the UNC group a copy of the May "Status of Data Processing" report prior to the meeting. The UNC group were very knowledgeable of the equipment we are currently using in the County with the exception of the old McDonnell Douglas system, and even there, they were familiar with the "PICK" operating system which it supports. UNC is currently using IBM RS60001s very similar with the one we are currently using. They are also supporting a large number of IBM compatible PCs and their software standard is the MicroSoft Office Suite of software. UNC also supports several PC LANs running Novell Netware and connected to the RS60001s. The UNC group were very supportive of the upgrade path proposed in the May status report. They consider the RS6000 series a very reliable, powerful, and flexible system to use as the base for the County's move into the Client-Server environment. Client-Server is an environment where the clients (county staff) are using LAN based PCs connected to a Host server (RS6000) to perform their daily functions. This configuration provides the desktop automation tools, such as word processing and spreadsheet, and access to the County legacy systems, such as General Ledger and Tax Collections, from the one device located on the workers desk.