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<br /> <br />decisions have been made on that so it’s really kind of premature where that’s going to <br />go, but the awareness is there. <br /> <br />Ms. Kierkiewicz: Is it safe to assume that it be more cost effective? <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: I would assume that it would be I mean if I just look at the exchange <br />server as one example. There were four different exchange servers, email server <br />installations, one at the County, one at Police, one at Prosecutor’s and one at Housing. <br />So that meant that there were four separate licenses for those exchange servers, four <br />separate maintenance plans, four separate groups of people maintaining what is now <br />collapsing down to a single one. So we’ll have a single place for the licensing, the <br />single place for support and because the single exchange server is aware of all of the <br />mailboxes of everyone in the County it also improves the communications. I can look at <br />a calendar for someone at Prosecutor’s and see if they are available for a meeting <br />before I wouldn’t know that. So there’s collaboration, there’s some you know additional <br />features that could bring those what we call shared services into a common place. <br />Some services aren’t shared I mean I don’t have a need to get into Prosecutor’s judicial <br />system for example so that should remain as an independent thing it’s more secure that <br />way but the shared services like email and document management and that sort of <br />thing, those are the things we’re starting to look at to try and bring together and <br />exchange is really the first one we’ve done. <br /> <br />Mr. Mitchell: A question from Kona. <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: Sure. <br /> <br />Mr. Mitchell: Don is there a particular municipality, governmental agency or <br />corporation platform or guideline that you using as a model or an example to follow? <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: I don’t know, actually it’s a model that may be as an example we’re <br />starting to see a lot this actually happening at the State level. It’s really worked out well <br />they’ve got, they did a survey I, when Sonny was a CIO there, they did a survey <br />basically they had several hundred different applications and dozens of different <br />platforms and they’re starting to collapse all those into their what they call OIMT now <br />which is the Office of Integrated Management, some kind of Information Management <br />Technology. So they are a good example to see how things are done and we do <br />communicate back and forth and I have the ability when we’re ready to maybe take <br />advantage of some of the technologies they’ve used to also save us money. They’ve <br />done some development on some tools and products that maybe useful for us when <br />we’re ready, but we’re not quite there yet but it’s nice to know that stuffs out there for us. <br /> <br />Mr. Mitchell: Thank you. <br /> <br />Mr. Espejo: Time wise it looks like about three to five years or something like <br />that? <br /> <br />Mr. Jacobs: I think that’s probably realistic, some of it will be you know it’s, it <br />takes time to make so of those structural changes they’ll be some you know some <br />consultation requirements with the unions if we have to adjust things so you know <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br /> <br />