Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Open Source Systems and Risk Management

Here's a general article in LJ about the importance of assessing your risk before you take on an open source ILS system:

It's an interesting read and very timely:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6611591.html

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Evergreen v. Koha - Comparisons

I've been looking for posts comparing Evergreen to Koha and I'm not finding much. Some posts are old and no longer accurate. Very frustrating.

Here's one from an Evergreen user in the making:
http://kcplinnovations.blogspot.com/2007/11/comparing-evergreen-and-koha.html

and here is a basic comparison between the two by Josh Ferraro, from LibLime, who is very familiar with both systems, since LibLime at one time offered Evergreen hosting/support:

http://markmail.org/message/ajr432cbothuf2ey

I'm sure that there are plenty more posts worth reading out there. If anyone has any good comparison articles or blogs or what not, please feel free to share!