Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Competition for Evergreen?

2016-04-26 Thread Jason Etheridge
>> But people do tend to underestimate the problem when it comes to >> rewrites.:) > > Of course. They did it before, so they think they still understand the > problem. And you inevitably get a whole new set of problems :D :D :D -- Jason Etheridge | Community and Migration Manager | Equinox

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Competition for Evergreen?

2016-04-26 Thread Jason Stephenson
On 04/26/2016 04:17 PM, Jason Etheridge wrote: But people do tend to underestimate the problem when it comes to rewrites.:) Of course. They did it before, so they think they still understand the problem. -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Competition for Evergreen?

2016-04-26 Thread Jason Etheridge
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Terran McCanna wrote: > I'm always baffled when someone decides to reinvent a very complicated wheel. To be fair, the tools keep getting cooler and cooler, and Not Invented Here is very real (I suspect we really didn't give Koha a

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Competition for Evergreen?

2016-04-26 Thread Terran McCanna
I'm always baffled when someone decides to reinvent a very complicated wheel. Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 tmcca...@georgialibraries.org On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Yamil Suarez

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Competition for Evergreen?

2016-04-26 Thread Justin P Degenaars
+1 to Jason's response! Justin Degenaars *Please email all technology and copy requests, questions, and problems to bush...@vcu.edu .* Justin P. Degenaars System administrator\Supervisor Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business--Technology Services 301 West Main

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Competition for Evergreen?

2016-04-26 Thread Jason Etheridge
> Here's an interesting article that just appeared in American Libraries that > has some implications for Evergreen > > http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/04/22/ebsco-kuali-open-source-project/ Other than them being completely wrong about Evergreen's technical merits (for example, Equinox

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Competition for Evergreen?

2016-04-26 Thread Yamil Suarez
Don, I personally think it is too early to tell if it will have any effect on Evergreen or any other ILS solutions, but I will keep an eye on them. Form the article I picked up that the the Kuali foundation is in essence abandoning the code they had built so far, and probably starting from

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Competition for Evergreen?

2016-04-26 Thread Donald Butterworth
Here's an interesting article that just appeared in American Libraries that has some implications for Evergreen http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/04/22/ebsco-kuali-open-source-project/ -- Don Butterworth Collection Management Librarian / Faculty Associate B.L. Fisher Library Asbury