[Web4lib] An Analysis Of Open Source ILS Market Penetration

[Lin Light]

Having worked off a slow moving barge on the Mississippi, speed becomes 
relational to ones surroundings. You have 20 barges rigged together, speed 
isn't the issue. CONTROL IS. And I think that is what open source is all 
about. We as users of any ILS find control of the development of the product 
lacking, that is where I think open source will prove itself. 
Also for every user of an open sources system is a potential developer. 

Lin


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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Deb Bergeron <bergeron at macalester.edu>
To: "K.G. Schneider" <kgs at bluehighways.com>, web4lib at webjunction.org
Sent: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:14:09 -0500
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] An Analysis Of Open Source ILS Market Penetration

> K.G. Schneider wrote:
> >  I'm not sure what the report demonstrates except the
> > "slow-moving barge" syndrome. Or am I missing something? 
> >
> >   
> If by 'slow-moving barge' you simply mean slow to gain mass-appeal, 
> yeah.  Didn't we experience the same thing with other 
> technologies--telephone, television, computer, ipods?  The market is 
> slow at first, but then as use and word of improved performance by 
> the new technology rises, so the presence of it in the marketplace 
> increases and causes the decline and ultimate replacement of 
> existing technologies.
> 
> Can't wait for it to happen!  What would that world look like?
> Oh I dunno--I can get to my data, I can move it around, deliverables 
> to market take a minimum of time, I can move from one company to 
> another, and most importantly, I can share all my info with any 
> other library, person, business, the world.
> 
> It isn't Google who could take over the world, it's libraries.  And 
> OSS can help make ubiquitous information available to everyone.
> 
> Deb
> 
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