RD45 - Milestones for 1998

The milestones for the second half of 1998 and 1999 were set at the LCB Meeting in April 1998 and are listed below.

1. Provide, together with the IT/PDP group, production data management services based on Objectivity/DB and HPSS with sufficient capacity to solve the requirements of ATLAS and CMS test beam and simulation needs, COMPASS and NA45 tests for their '99 data taking runs.
2. Develop and provide appropriate database administration tools, (meta-)data browsers and data import/export facilities, as required for (1).
3. Develop and provide production versions of the HepOODBMS class libraries, including reference and end-user guides.
4. Continue R&D, based on input and use cases from the LHC collaborations to produce results in time for the next versions of the collaborations' Computing Technical Proposals (end 1999).