On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:01:52 -0500, Randy Edwards
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> it), that at the time was not up to speed, but may
be
>> now: http://www.koha.org/
>
>    I've done some work with this system, and once >
installed it into a 
> public school's library in Mass.  I'd term your info
> as dated -- Koha 
> is in 
> growing use in both traditional, university and >
public/private school 
> libraries.

As I said, it was about 2 years ago.  To me it looked
good, but he indicated some issues with MARC and some
of the specialized library stuff he did (he was a
specialized librarian).  It might have been that fact,
vs being capable for general library use, that was the
problem.  Of course, being open source, I suspect it's
improved (look where Linux, X, Gnome, KDE, etc have
come in the last 2 years).

The rest of your comments (cut for space) seem to
indicate Koha is making inroads - which makes it a
better reason to look at it (and I did suggest looking
at it, suspecting improvement).  Of course, with
support, ANY Open Source can match commercial - I've
noticed that, realistically, that's one of two the
major reasons to pay for something, the other being
installation - getting someone to install & tailor for
you.  Both can be done with Open Source, and you gain
options - because anyone CAN, you can find the best
value for you.

Sorry to delay responding, but, having carefully
ensured availability by having two home systems,
mirrored to ensure backup, they both died on me at the
same time (laptop ate it's HD, my 7 year old main
system's motherboard went out)!  Add to that my Debian
Install disk is apparently unreadable (worked last
year - suspect it got scratched or something), I
haven't had a computer for a while, and have to use
the library computers.

Good news is I have an 80MB HD on the laptop now, and
I ordered the pieces for a new Athlon64 system - for
under $1000! (of course, my big HD and DVD+-RW drive
are moving over, along with my monitor, so that kept
the price down.  Also running (or will when the
recompiles get done) 2.6.1-rc1.


jeff

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