Meeting called to order on July 25, 2000 at 1705 at the Rational Software Conference Center in Lexington, MA by President Jim Dunion

Old Business

Eric Piatt motioned to skip the review of the May 2000 meeting minutes with a unanimous second as a printed copy was not available for review.

Motion was made by Board President Jim Dunion for acceptance of the Boston Metro Clearcase Users Group By-Law's. Andrew Mason gave a second to the motion and the membership, by voice vote, unanimously accepted the By-Law's.

New Business

Dave Darby was unable to make it to the meeting for the scheduled Clearcase Performance Question and Answer session. The location of Dave's May 2000 Performance presentation is available on the BMCCUG web site, (http://www.penguin-inc.com/bmccug/#PPM)

At 1720 Paul Honrud of Baydel Networks (http://www.baydel.com/) gave a presentation entitled 'Understanding Clearcase I/O Performance and its Demands on Storage' followed by a break at 1800.

At 1810, a product presentation of RAID 3 disk drive storage systems was given by Linda LaPorta of Baydel Networks followed by a 30 minute general question and answer session among the membership.

Following the general question and answer session, President Jim Dunion opened a discussion on the subject of technical recruiter solicitation at BMCCUG meetings.
It was decided by the membership not to invite technical recruiters to BMCCUG meetings, but to instead allocate an area on the BMCCUG web page for job postings specific to Configuration Management, Clearcase Administration and Release Engineering. In addition, it was decided that the Board of Directors shall be empowered to screen all job postings prior to being made available on the groups web site.
A motion to accept was offered by Jim Dunion and unanimously approved by a voice vote of the membership.

The next order of business was discussion of the next meeting time and place of the BMCCUG. A motion was offered and approved by a majority of the membership to have the next meeting as follows:
Tuesday, September 26, 2000
Fidelity Center for Applied Technology
245 Summer Street, Boston, MA (next to South Station)

The next meeting topic will be NT/Unix Interoperability

A Rational Clearcase t-shirt drawing was held as the last item of business. Winners were drawn at random from those who submitted feedback sheets on the nights meeting.

A motion to adjourn the meeting was offered at 1910 with unanimous approval.