[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen maintenance

[Jonathan Rochkind]

I am curious, if you have a current OPAC, do you currently pay for a  
support contract for it? You can of course purchase a support  
contract from Equinox, and soon if not presently from other vendors.  
If it appeared necessary.  You'd have to talk to them to see if it  
can be done within your budget.  But I predict it would be a lot  
better support than most of us are used to from our current vendors,  
and would eliminate any concern about resources for upgrades and such.

Jonathan


On Mar 26, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Harry Bochner wrote:

>
> Thanks for the input, Jason.
>
> > I'm a little enamored with Delicious Library (a Mac application),  
> but
> > I'm not sure how suitable it would be for you:
>
> My boss is familiar with it, and says it's great for a personal  
> library, but too small
> for our needs. Better something over-powered, like Evergreen, than  
> something
> underpowered.
>
> Our OPAC might only get a dozen hits a day (or maybe several  
> dozen?), so load-balancing
> isn't something we're thinking about. But it does have to run on a  
> linux server, and be
> web-accessible throughout the LAN.
>
> From your feedback, it sounds like there's little or none of the  
> kind of on-going
> "care and feeding" that I was concerned about. Sure, upgrades will  
> take some
> work, but that's inevitable. (And we can skip them unless there's a  
> bug fix we
> care about! ;-)
>
> So I'll go back to plugging away ...
>
> Thanks again,
>
> -- 
> Harry