Most vendors who offer NT as an optional operating system prefer to use UNIX when supporting more than 100 or 150 users. Gaylord, which offers only NT, has defied conventional wisdom and deployed two much larger NT-based Polaris systems: the Southern Oregon Libraries Information System (SOLIS) with 400 users and the Washington County Cooperative Library System (WCCLS) with 350 users.
Gaylord's Polaris will soon be in-stalled by CLAN (Cooperative Libraries Automated Network) of Nevada, a consortium of 28 libraries with 1.3 million items and more than 185,000 patrons. The system could become the largest NT-based automated library system.
[Contact: Gaylord Information Systems, P.O. Box 4901, Syracuse, NY 13221; telephone 800-272-3414; Web: www.gaylord.com/automation]
