Brad,
Nice to meet you! I've followed Open-ILS for a couple years now. Can you
shed some light on your project, namely:
* the problem(s) - without damning anyone or any company, what did and
does PINES want that commercial systems can't or won't deliver?
* the ability of a given, usually commercial, product to solve those
problems - Where the problems financial (a vendor could do x, or so they
claimed, but they wanted a boat-load of money), architectural (the
commercial product's architecture couldn't support x, or couldn't be changed
to support x in a given time-frame, or for a given amount of money), lack of
interest ("Sorry, we aren't interested in x, go talk to somebody else"), or
something else?
* changing user needs (and it probably doesn't matter why they change.
Changing markets? Changing user preferences? Changing technology? All
three and more) - Now PINES is the vendor. How does your design accomodate
changing user needs?
* the ability of vendor(s) to respond to change - Again, how has PINES
organized itself to do this?
The PINES experience can be a help to everyone interested in NextGen
products. We are all faced a similar problem set.
Mark Andrews, Systems Librarian
Creighton University, Omaha NE
mja30807_at_creighton.edu
mja30807_at_mac.com
Received on Sat Jun 10 2006 - 11:33:27 EDT