If you search for results using the USMS Meet Result tracking, the results page for this service after searching has a notice where the USMS logo used to be:
"By mutual agreement with USMS
This service will terminate on December 31, 2007"
(attached below)
While it's certainly a clunky results interface (depending on how you search using it, certain results will be present in certain searches, and not in others), I would think it would be better than nothing. Does anyone know if there is a replacement in the works?
Patrick King
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Former Member
Yeah, I had a similiar argument with Chris (CRG) with USAS results. I got shut down with no notice due to arguments between him and with the vendor we had worked through (vendor did not pay him). We worked for 6 months and never could get the vendor's replacement to work due to our massive size (the vendor's product was designed for a team with 200 athletes, not a state with 35,000 athletes). I put in a homebrew replacement and then we went through some arguments with the vendor for similar "look and feel" in our homebrew. While the lawyers were mentioned, happily it didn't go that far.
We eventually abandoned our homebrew to use the USA Swimming "SWIMS" database and I was removed from maintaining the website shortly afterwards; I agreed not to release the code to any other organizations. It was not geared to USMS performances that well anyhow. There is probably other stuff going on that I wasn't clued in on.
Mel, thanks for the tidbit. :)
Yeah, I had a similiar argument with Chris (CRG) with USAS results. I got shut down with no notice due to arguments between him and with the vendor we had worked through (vendor did not pay him). We worked for 6 months and never could get the vendor's replacement to work due to our massive size (the vendor's product was designed for a team with 200 athletes, not a state with 35,000 athletes). I put in a homebrew replacement and then we went through some arguments with the vendor for similar "look and feel" in our homebrew. While the lawyers were mentioned, happily it didn't go that far.
We eventually abandoned our homebrew to use the USA Swimming "SWIMS" database and I was removed from maintaining the website shortly afterwards; I agreed not to release the code to any other organizations. It was not geared to USMS performances that well anyhow. There is probably other stuff going on that I wasn't clued in on.
Mel, thanks for the tidbit. :)
