July 1998 Meeting

DATE: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 TIME: 6:00pm - 8:00pm TOPIC: MKS Source Integrity

For the July meeting, we have arranged with MKS, the maker of MKS Source Integrity, to address our group on various source code management issues. MKS is based in Waterloo, ON and have customer based world wide. MKS Source Integrity Professional Edition is the easiest way for development teams, QA teams, and geographically distributed team members to speed time to market, manage multiple releases, and secure software assets. MKS’s solution for SCM and defect tracking easily deploys across the enterprise to reduce administrative overhead and provide a lower cost of ownership. Easy-to-use features include Web-based access, build management, reporting, parallel development capabilities, integrations into leading IDEs, advanced security and administration.

The presentation will be divided into 2 parts:

I. MKS Inc.
- Intro of MKS, the Corp
- Why SCM, and ROI of a SCM solution
- Features and unique compoments of MKS Source Integrity

II. Technical Demo
- Architecture
- Demo
- Integration with Borland IDE
- Security and Administration Module

There will be 2 speakers from MKS:

David Reed, Regional Field Engineer, Layfayette CA, provides pre-sales technical support to MKS prospective clients at seminars and tradeshows, as well as pre and post-sales consultation. Dave’s works with the Regional sales managers in California and the Pacific North West. After 11 years in development of real-time systems he moved into Sales Support and Customer Support. His technical experience ranges from PC’s to Super Minicomputers to Superconputers and Massively Parallel Systems. Dave been employed with MKS as a Regional Field Engineer for the last 2.5 years and has a degree in Applied Mathematics form California State Polytechnic University.

Brian Besse, Regional Sales, Vancouver BC, is responsible in selling MKS Toolkit, Source Integrity and Web Integrity software: configuration management (SCM) product lines and MKS Professional Services solutions. He has been with MKS in various sales roles for 4 years and holds a bachelor of Commerce Degree from Dalhousie University.

MKS has also graciously offer to sponser refreshments/food for the evening. Door prizes will also be given away at the end of the meeting.