[Web4lib] An Analysis Of Open Source ILS Market Penetration

[Blake Carver]

An Analysis Of Open Source ILS Market Penetration
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 to the web4lib readers.
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