Refreshments provided by Winchester Systems starting at 5pm: http://www.winsys.com/index2.php

Meeting called to order on July 31, 2001 at 5:30pm at the Marriott Hotel, Burlington, MA by BMRCCUG Vice President Kevin Pease. Meeting began a little late due to traffic backups on Rt128 and Rt3.

(1735-1820) Feature Presentation - "Improving ClearCase Performance and Availability"
Presented by Jerry Namerty of Winchester Systems

(1820-1855) General discussion on current market trends and how they are effecting the SCM job market for both contract and permanent employment led by Eric Piatt of Penguin Computing Inc. http://www.penguin-inc.com/

(1855) Meeting wrap up with thanks to Winchester Systems for providing refreshments and the raffle of a digital camera won by Mike Kingsbury of Avaya, Inc.

Old Business

- not covered this meeting

New Business

Jennifer Pilotte of Avaya indicated that Avaya (Concord, MA)
would be interested in hosting a monthly BMRCCUG meeting again. We should
contact her for information & to schedule the BMRCCUG meeting at Avaya.

Future topics of interest (many brought up by David Darby):
Web interface to ClearCase
Add-ons to ClearCase (ClearQuest, other integrations)
Clearmake & Makefiles -- improvements for faster builds
ClearQuest MultiSite versus ClearCase MultiSite
UCM
ClearCase 5.0 -- what's in store? (Get someone from Rational to present)
Using clearaudit to track build dependencies
Handling 3rd-party source code within a VOB.
Triggers -- what's used in different environments, how are they managed?
VOB Splitting
Snapshot versus Dynamic Views