Andy,
It is a highly extensible platform, based on .NET and windows. It is also
open source! We did install it and have a play around with it. But not as
much as we would have liked, primarily because of skillset and resource
issues here.
Microsoft have come late into the repository space,
Zentity is entirely consistent with their market strategy. It would be
defeatist of them to take such an attitude. Why would they write software
for a non-microsoft platform?
They have made some good software, which should be useful and is in a good
position to leverge the functionality of other
On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:25 AM, David Kane wrote:
Why would they write software
for a non-microsoft platform?
I'll just point out that other OS vendors (Apple, Sun, Ubuntu, etc.) write
software for other platforms.
-Esme
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Esme Cowles escow...@ucsd.edu
Men feared witches and burnt women.
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So what?
On 28 April 2010 15:37, Cowles, Esme escow...@ucsd.edu wrote:
On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:25 AM, David Kane wrote:
Why would they write software
for a non-microsoft platform?
I'll just point out that other OS vendors (Apple, Sun, Ubuntu, etc.) write
software for other platforms.
David is right that Microsoft would never develop for multiple platforms
because that would undermine their business model, which is of course, to
duplicate efforts and reject international standards (or make Microsoft the
standard for everything). Fortunately, Microsoft is losing its grip on
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote:
If its open source, I assume that it could be adapted to run under Mono and
then you could run it on Linux, Macs, etc. It may even run under Mono, don't
know, haven't played with it.
Well, it requires SQLServer, so
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Ross Singer
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:23 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Microsoft Zentity
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org
wrote:
If its
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems to me that the major flaw of the software is that it isn't
cross-platform, which comes as no surprise. But I feel Microsoft didn't do
their market research. While the financial and business sectors are heavily
Ross Singer wrote:
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems to me that the major flaw of the software is that it isn't
cross-platform, which comes as no surprise. But I feel Microsoft didn't do
their market research. While the financial and business
Gruber
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:03 AM
To: Johnston, Leslie; Code for Libraries
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Microsoft Zentity
David is right that Microsoft would never develop for multiple platforms
because that would undermine their business model, which is of course, to
duplicate efforts
At Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:11:39 +0100,
David Kane wrote:
Andy,
It is a highly extensible platform, based on .NET and windows. It is also
open source!
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