Well you’ll have to take my word for it, but about an hour ago this link had a detailed account of a merger between Dynix and SIRSI. Long story short, good news for everyone and nobody will have to change platforms. The company URL will be http://www.sirsidynix.com Obviously this was meant to be announced at ALA, but it was delivered via the official SIRSI OneSourse newsletter RSS feed (that evil RSS! 😉
Oh, and I care ’cause we’re a SIRSI shop here at the U of C
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Here’s the result of the domain name search. Does the name ring a bell to anybody?
Registrant:
HOVANES, KEN
414 Eustis Ave.
HUNTSVILLE, AL 35801
US
Domain Name: SIRSIDYNIX.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
HOVANES, KEN khovanes@yahoo.com
414 Eustis Ave.
HUNTSVILLE, AL 35801
US
256 536 4595
Record expires on 23-May-2010.
Record created on 23-May-2005.
Database last updated on 20-Jun-2005 15:39:44 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.DRA.NET 150.147.64.1
NS2.DRA.NET 150.147.64.65
The zip code is the same than SIRSI’s office.
I posted this news on a Dynix customer discussion list with a link to this post, and some folks there have noticed that the address on the registration is 3 blocks from the SIRSI HQ.
Google map: http://tinyurl.com/dd44z
Also significant that the nameservers are using the domain dra.net.
SIRSI at it again?
We previously mentioned the SIRSI acquisition of Docutek on this blog.� Earlier this afternoon, Paul over at the Distant Librarian made a very interesting discovery buried in one of SIRSI’s RSS feeds — an apparently premature announcement (possibly
A few more URLs all registered by the same person on May 23rd
dynixsirsi.com
dynixsirsi.net
dynixsirsi.org
dynix-sirsi.com
dynix-sirsi.net
dynix-sirsi.org
sirsi-dynix.com
sirsi-dynix.net
sirsi-dynix.org
sirsidynix.com
sirsidynix.net
sirsidynix.org