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! ๐
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.๏ฟฝ 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