> "The final question I think anyone responsible for making an investment
> decision in terms of building OLE should ask themselves is this: If I
> were investing my own money in a company that said they were going to
> build OLE, would I do it? If not, I think you know what you should do
> when it comes to your organization’s money and OLE."
It's a non-question. Red Herring, I think is the colloquialism. Would
I invest my money in Ex Libris, or SirsiDynix, or any other ILS
company? Let me think about that one for a minute... I don't want to
be too hasty...
If that's really the "final question", and if you put "your current
ILS vendor" in for "OLE" and the answer is no, I think I have an
inkling why the momentum is building for libraries to roll their own.
-M
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Maurice York
Head, Information Technology
NCSU Libraries
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695
maurice_york_at_ncsu.edu
Phone: 919-515-3518
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Matthew
Phillips<M.E.Phillips_at_dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2_at_YAHOO.COM> 20/08/2009 22:35 >>>
>>Carl Grant, president of Ex Libris North America, writes some critical
> commentary
>>about the OLE project on his blog:
>>
>>http://commentary.exlibrisgroup.com/2009/08/ole-unanswered-questions.html
>
>>
>>Grant's commentary is followed by an interesting response from Brad
> Wheeler,
>>Indiana University's Chief Information Officer and VP for Information
> Technology.
>
> Yes, very interesting. Carl Grant says:
>
>
> My question would be if I am paying support and maintenance costs on
> commercial software of £xx,xxx per year, surely I should expect, after
> deduction of profits and overheads, at least £x,xxx of software
> development work going on areas which are important to me. But in
> reality, as a customer, I have very little influence on the priorities
> of the developer.
>
> At least with contributing development effort to an Open Source project
> you can tell your programmer(s) what to do!
>
> Matthew
>
>
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> Matthew Phillips
> Systems Librarian
> Library IT Support
> Library and Learning Centre, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN
> Phone 01382-385181 (internal x85181)
>
>
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