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 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss