[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows

[Edward Corrado]

This is not unusual. I know that this has come up with proprietary ILS products as well -- but I really see it as a Trojan horse. Even if X vendor markets the product on Windows, if it is not their main development platform you are askign for problems. I'd even go so far to run my ILS on Windows over Linux if I had to run that was developed on Windows instead of Linux (and most of the other customers where on it). Really, keeping up a server running Linux, Windows, Novell Netware,or anything is not very difficult if it is a one-product-solution for someone with some computer background. 

The thing about this that makes me laugh is at least one ILS product runs on Windows via what amounts to an UNIX emulator. I hear of sites occasionally that run it because they don't have UNIX expertise, but it turns out they need to know just as much UNIX anyway! I guess if you IT department would go for that, you could install Evergreen in VMware!


Edward


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gord Ripley" <gripley at trentu.ca>
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2008 5:06:25 PM (GMT-0500) Auto-Detected
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows

Hi Paul:

My question is a general one only, as I'm installing on Debian here. I realize this is a motherhood issue, but there are some practical reasons for considering Windows. Our campus IT department, for example, runs mostly Windows servers, and has a lot of Windows expertise. They have a few Linux machines, but their forte is definitely Windows/Novell, for better or for worse. I imagine this is not an unusual situation. 

Gord

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>>> "Paul Bartell" <paul-bartell at ubuntu.com> 04/02/2008 4:51:25 pm >>>
It should be possible to run it on windows with some modification, but
if you are running apache/perl/pgsql, why not run it on linux? It
would work much more regularily instead of relying on not-so-good
ports of perl etc. Also, the way of printing would be quite different.

On Feb 4, 2008 1:15 PM, Gord Ripley <gripley at trentu.ca> wrote:
> Hi:
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> Just curious, and this is probably a silly question, but are there any plans for a port to Windows at some point?
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> Gord
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