Thanks, Amy. I've already posted my comment in response to the article, which overall, I thought was quite good.
Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com <lori.a...@galecia.com>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow optimization, and materials handling =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:08 PM, DeGroff, Amy <adegr...@liblime.com> wrote: > Hi everyone: > > As a former IT director for a library system that was planning to > implement Koha, but subsequently chose an alternate path, I would > recommend you approach this topic with delicacy, What is said > publicly and what truly happened is not always the same story. I would > not publicly discuss all aspects of what occurred with me and my > former site, and the same is true for any library in this situation. > It may be that discussing issues from two years ago is not > productive for anyone - especially the hard working librarians in New > Jersey about whom you'd be speaking. > > East Brunswick was an early PTFS customer and contributed ideas and > energy to Koha - ideas which we proudly made available to all -- via > our public git hub. Some features have been adopted by other Koha > users -- some features have not. > > East Brunswick did indeed find Koha 3.x slow in areas related to > circulation - we worked to address their concerns. They were a Horizon > site and the speed of that thick client application was for them too > tantalizing and familiar to give up; a web application - like Koha - > is in some cases - slower than a thick client - like Horizon. > > Despite the departure of a valued customer, we have continued to make > significant improvements in response time, both with sponsored > development from customers and sponsored development by PTFS. > > We will soon be publishing a new release of LibLime Koha in download > format as well as a unified git repository. This release includes the > latest performance improvements we have made to the application > including the use of the Plack environment which simulates a > persistent run time environment for PERL. In that release, > circulation transactions are now 1/3 of a second. > > Lori - what else can I supply to help you set the record straight? > > > > -- > > 2011/8/24 Robin Sheat <ro...@catalyst.net.nz> > > > > Lori Bowen Ayre schreef op wo 24-08-2011 om 16:17 [-0700]: > > > As I read this, I recalled someone saying that the only library to > > > have gone to Koha and then switched back was a Liblime customer > > > > I'm aware of one here in NZ (that I don't think was liblime), but they > > were happily running Koha, and then joined/got absorbed into a > > consortium that mandated something else, so it wasn't a switch due to > > unhappiness with Koha. > > > > -- > > Robin Sheat > > Catalyst IT Ltd. > > ✆ +64 4 803 2204 > > GPG: 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > > > > -- > Amy Begg De Groff > Product Manager > LibLime, a Division of PTFS, Inc. > adegr...@liblime.com > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >
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