[Web4lib] What Sort of Library is Open Source Software For?

[Joshua Ferraro]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:33:47AM -0400, Ross Singer wrote:
> Also, note, Evergreen ILS is being built upon PostgreSQL (and to be 
> considered successful, /must/ scale to the enterprise), and Koha is 
> built upon MySQL (although current requirements aren't as demanding as 
> Evergreen's).
Just to clarify, Koha is not dependent on any one RDBMS, MySQL is just the
most popular choice among users; note that some users use PostgreSQL
and even SQL Server.

Also note that while the latest releases of Koha (2.x series) does
have scalibility limitations due to a poorly-designed MARC-in-SQL
structure, these limitations will be removed in the next version 
with the integration of the high-performance textual indexing
and retrieval engine known as Zebra. Zebra is an excellent example
of an open-source application that 'beats the pants' off proprietary
competitors. In fact, it's probably safe to say that all of Index Data's 
open-source tools do this.

Cheers,
-- 
Joshua Ferraro               VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
President, Technology       migration, training, maintenance, support
LibLime                                Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS
jmf at liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS