The Quest Application
 

 

History
Lets first go over the history of Quest with this small timeline:

March 1994 Info PM Coding starts
Sept 1994 Info PM Coding ends, Info PM is deployed providing very powerful editing and output functions including mass updates, fax capability and a relational product model.
? 1994 Some incarnation of CTS Tips starts over in Greenock
July of 1995 Info PM is supposed to be sunset, CTS Tips saves the day?
Nov 1997 I think people finally stopped using Info PM.
Nov 1997 Quest is thought of because Notes just isn't powerful enough and can't seem to grow anymore.
March 1998 Quest Application coding begins. The Quest database is just a reincarnation of the Info PM database. Long live Info PM! The circle is now complete.
Feb 1999 Quest is released. All content from CTS Tips is brought into DB/2. The first time the documents in CTS Tips actually knows about other documents! This is a major step since the CTS Tips database took advantage of the RTF fields in Lotus Notes. Never before has this been done!
Feb 1999-now Quest has continually been patched with bug fixes, but mostly new requirements. These new requirements have come from single users (you know who you are) and from sessions with groups of users.
Nov 1999-now Quest v2.0 born. David was sick of programming for a 5 year old client and was finally able to take full advantage of Java. (Think of writing documents for text based browsers only!) Enjoy!
   
   

 

People
Now, the most important resource of Quest, the people. Here they are:

 

I/T
Linda Reisland Original Manager in charge of I/T when QIT began
Jennifer Ujdak

Original Project Manager when QIT began

Lori Alphonse Project Manager for QIT v1.x
Myra A Ezell Project Manager for QIT v2.0
John Moran Manager for most of QIT v1.x and v2.0
James Vescio Current Manager of QIT v2.0
Frances Crespo Getting all those reports together! She can be considered the single point of contact for issues
Chad Meadows Developer on original Quest
Maria Paredes Developer on original Quest
Souvik Dutta Handling all of those 'bugs'
Tracey Watkins Handling all of the other 'bugs'
James Chamberlain Creator of Migrator/2
Michael Sweetman Creator of Migrator
David Lentz Umm, Designer, Coder of Quest in whole including Database
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Business
Skip Gilmer Manager in charge of Authors
Phil Myers Project Mgr of Quest and all around great guy
Lucky Wick Long time Quest User, caught lots of bugs, and published THE first document!
Dennis Shively Anyone using OS/2 owes Dennis. Without his help, no bugs in OS/2 would be fixed
Brian Moore One great bug catcher
Lincoln Varien Handles all bug reports from the Business Side

 

Technology and Misc. Points
- Quest was the first Java Application to take advantage of Java Serialized Stored Procedures and received a Patent for it. (Ok David did, not Quest).

- Quest interfaces with DB/2 Databases, FTP Sites and has the capability to talk with other Quest applications

- Quest has published over 40,000 times in the past year, creating 7,000 documents.

- Quest is written entirely in Java, allowing it to run on Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, Linux, OS/2, AIX and any other Java enabled platform.

- Quest currently has over 600 users, 400 of which have edited or published documents