Five DAT DDS II tape units have been added. The Token-ring local area network is still in use, as are the microcomputers with 486 and Pentium processors. The AGI has 40 workstations connected to the network. Much of the system is already available in Windows NT, while DB2 for Unix can manage the databases. The system is supported by the DB2 relational model database and is expected to progress to ODBC standard interface for relational databases.
Plans call for the incorporation of new digitization devices.
The development of interfaces for Web clients and servers for the Internet is under way. At the end of 1997, IBM, following a general company strategy toward small business, withdrew.