The text I've seen talks about "[e]xpanded reporting capabilities to
support management decisions" in forthcoming versions and encourages
towards the hosted solution.
Since we're in .nz, they'd put our hosted proxy server in .au, but the
network connection between .nz and .au is via the continental .us, which
puts an extra trans-pacific network loop in 99% of our proxied network
connections.
cheers
stuart
On 30/01/14 03:14, Ingraham Dwyer, Andy wrote:
OCLC announced in April 2013 the changes in their license model for North
America. EZProxy's license moves from requiring a one-time purchase of US$495
to a *annual* fee of $495, or through their hosted service, with the fee
depending on scale of service. The old one-time purchase license is no longer
offered for sale as of July 1, 2013. I don't have any details about pricing
for other parts of the world.
An important thing to recognize here, is that they cannot legally change the
terms of a license that is already in effect. The software you have purchased
under the old license is still yours to use, indefinitely. OCLC has even
released several maintenance updates during 2013 that are available to current
license-holders. In fact, they released V5.7 in early January 2014, and made
that available to all license-holders. However, all updates after that version
are only available to holders of the yearly subscription. The hosted product
is updated to the most current version automatically.
My recommendation is: If your installation of EZProxy works, don't change it.
Yet. Upgrade your installation to the last version available under the old
license, and use that for as long as you can. At this point, there are no
world-changing new features that have been added to the product. There is
speculation that IPv6 support will be the next big feature-add, but I haven't
heard anything official. Start planning and budgeting for a change, either to
the yearly fee, or the cost of hosted, or to some as-yet-undetermined
alternative. But I see no need to start paying now for updates you don't need.
-Andy
Andy Ingraham Dwyer
Infrastructure Specialist
State Library of Ohio
274 E. 1st Avenue
Columbus, OH 43201
library.ohio.gov
-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of stuart
yeates
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?
I probably should have been more specific.
Does anyone have experience switching from EzProxy to anything else?
Is anyone else aware of the coming OCLC changes and considering switching?
Does anyone have a worked example like: "My EzProxy config for site Y looked like A;
after the switch, my X config for site Z looked like B"?
I'm aware of this good article:
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7470
cheers
stuart
On 29/01/14 15:24, stuart yeates wrote:
We've just received notification of forth-coming changes to EZProxy,
which will require us to pay an arm and a leg for future versions to
install locally and/or host with OCLC AU with a ~ 10,000km round trip.
What are the alternatives?
cheers
stuart
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Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
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