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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. |
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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! |
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People
Now, the most important resource of Quest, the people. Here they are:
I/T |
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Linda Reisland |
Original Manager
in charge of I/T when QIT began |
Jennifer Ujdak |
Original Project
Manager when QIT began
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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 |
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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
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