Other details like library fines owed are posted before student leaves school. Firms Participating in SIF Specs Development More than 30 producers of management systems and a few school systems are participating in SIF and the list is growing. The SIF specifications may or may not take hold. We're not fortunetellers. SIF is worthy of attention, but we can't predict if it will be a best seller, or what the competitive offerings will be in the next year.
Vendors have to offer upgrades to current versions of applications.
School systems, often slow to change, will have to establish SIF's place in the market by buying it. The price for SIF-certified products has to be close to the current prices of administrative system products to assure acceptance. The competitive solutions, fully integrated applications on one platform i.e. Oracle, PeopleSoft, or SAS has to be less attractive than SIF certified products. The server and protocols necessary to support the operation of SIF products has to work well in school district operations. There is much that can occur between now and then.