It'll be interesting to see how this table compares to one in a year
from now. :-)
Deb
Blake Carver wrote:
> My apologies if you've seen this annouced on the other lists you're
> subscribed to.
>
> http://features.lisnews.org/features/07/10/15/118229.shtml
>
> This ILS Market Analysis was written by Bob Molyneux contains
> preliminary figures might be of interest. Bob looks at which U.S.
> public & academic libraries currently run open source ILS software,
> and how Koha and Evergreen usage stacks up.
>
> "There are a number of ways one might measure the impact of open
> source ILS software on U.S. public libraries but I think these
> preliminary figures are suggestive: that few of these libraries
> actually use open source software as a means of supplying their ILSs.
> Of course, we know that many more have announced and the market is
> dynamic. When I revisit these figures, I suspect the numbers will
> change but the size of the library market is quite a bit larger than
> the open source community has supplied. Its impact on the market is
> around 1%, depending on which measure one uses and by the restrictive
> criteria I use here."
>
> You can read the report and see his tables for comparison at
> http://www.lisnews.org/features/07/10/15/118229.shtml
>
> -BLake Carver
> LISNews.org
>
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