In particular, the issue of UNIX versus VMS as the operating system came up. Since this was not the first time that this issue came up, it is clear that the situation must carefully be reviewed, and IRAM agreed to do this in close collaboration with the Grenoble observatory. In this context it is very important that members from the User Community make known to IRAM what specific software problems they encountered during observations or during data reduction. The second day of the User Meeting allowed for a fair number of short contributions from guest observers which highlighted the wide variety of topics that are tackled with the 30m telescope and with the interferometer, respectively. Prior to these contributions a whole session was devoted to a status report on the key project which is carried out at the 30m telescope since the fall of 1992.
Weather is the primary cause for delays.
Given this learning experience and the actual state of the project, it is premature to reach any conclusions as to whether or not the scheme of key projects should be continued in the future or not.