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14 March 2007

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Dave Pattern

Isolated for how long? The murder of Horizon in cold blood is sadly an indicator of the times we live in. I seriously don't think any proprietary system is safe now.

The only good to come out of all this is that hundreds of libraries are now seriously looking at Evergreen and Koha.

If all of those libraries make the jump and, instead of paying maintenance on an bloated legacy system, hire themselves one developer each, then collectively they'd have themselves an R&D department that dwarfs the system vendors. That's certainly a road I'd be happy to travel down!

kevinyezbick

Our library's in the thick of this...

I pulled the Evergreen / Pines article from Library Journal and paperclipped it. I hope they seriously consider it -- but I think they are leaning towards Innovative. I would be much happier as a patron if they went with Evergreen -- based on what I see from Pines.

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