Pismere ACMG may 18,1999>

# Project Pismere - ACMG Meeting - 5/18/1999

"Everything you wanted to know about Pismere,but were afraid or forgot to ask"

## Definition of Pismere

Pismere means centrally managed, serially reusable, dataless workstations (as opposed to private workstations). Pismere is analogous to Athena but it is NOT Athena NT.

Pismere has an academic focus, although it also has administrative implications. Pismere aims for minimal changes to client machines, with major changes to servers.

In order to save precious meeting time, we'd like to request that you read the following background material before the ACMG meeting on Tuesday, May 18.

## Preparatory reading

- Scenario - Faculty View
- Scenario - Student View
- Customers of Pismere
- The Business of Pismere
- Benefits to IS Support
- Impact on IS Service
- Rollout phases

To review the project scope and deliverables for Pismere, see http://web.mit.edu/pismere/