[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Competition for Evergreen?

[Justin P Degenaars]

+1 to Jason's response!

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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com>
wrote:

> > 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 is doing multitenancy now via Sequoia),
> more power to them.
>
> There is most definitely competition between software products, but
> open source software doesn't feel market pressures the way you might
> think.  I mean, BSD is dead, but long live BSD!
>
> Evergreen (and Koha's) main advantage is that the project is
> responsive to its users, and it's been responsive in a relatively
> organic way.  Any good ideas (and any good open source code) that
> another product has, we can absorb if we really want to.  But we don't
> _have_ to develop features if our user base doesn't need or want them.
> And if something truly better does come along (and meets every need,
> including the freedom to continue meeting the needs of its users),
> then why not adopt it?  Or bounce between both, and aim for hybrid
> vigor?  Competition is good.  Barring artificial intelligence, there's
> never going to be one thing that will be everything to everyone.
> There's room for Evergreen, Koha, and whatever else wants to solve a
> problem (and there's FulfILLment to bind them all together;)
>
> --
> Jason Etheridge
> | Community and Migration Manager
> | Equinox Software - Open Your Library
> | 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
> | jason at esilibrary.com
> | http://www.esilibrary.com
>
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