Prior to 1994, Carnegie Mellon University exclusively used the locally-developed and non-standard Andrew Messaging System (AMS) for its email communication needs.   It was very advanced for its day, however, it had major scalability issues. The Cyrus Project was started at Carnegie Mellon in 1994. The first year that all of CMU's incoming freshmen were placed on the Cyrus server was 1998 (class of 2002). In December of 2001, bboard access (which had been being mirrored from AMS to Cyrus), was cut over to Cyrus completely. AMS was finally phased out in May of 2002.  Cyrus is a highly scalable enterprise mail system designed for use in enterprise environments of various sizes using standards based technologies. Cyrus technologies scale from independent use in email departments to a system centrally managed in a large enterprise. 

Project Cyrus was named in honor of Cyrus the Great who invented the first modern, "packet-switching"-based mail system, the forerunner of every major communication system we have today.

External link

• Documentation of the Cyrus Project at Carnegie Mellon University

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