Koha is Koha, LibLime Kohaproduct is a proprietary derivative. Nothing wrong with that - but lets not confuse the 2.
On 26 August 2011 09:08, DeGroff, Amy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone: > > As a former IT director for a library system that was planning to > implement Koha, but subsequently chose an alternate path, I would > recommend you approach this topic with delicacy, What is said > publicly and what truly happened is not always the same story. I would > not publicly discuss all aspects of what occurred with me and my > former site, and the same is true for any library in this situation. > It may be that discussing issues from two years ago is not > productive for anyone - especially the hard working librarians in New > Jersey about whom you'd be speaking. > > East Brunswick was an early PTFS customer and contributed ideas and > energy to Koha - ideas which we proudly made available to all -- via > our public git hub. Some features have been adopted by other Koha > users -- some features have not. > > East Brunswick did indeed find Koha 3.x slow in areas related to > circulation - we worked to address their concerns. They were a Horizon > site and the speed of that thick client application was for them too > tantalizing and familiar to give up; a web application - like Koha - > is in some cases - slower than a thick client - like Horizon. > > Despite the departure of a valued customer, we have continued to make > significant improvements in response time, both with sponsored > development from customers and sponsored development by PTFS. > > We will soon be publishing a new release of LibLime Koha in download > format as well as a unified git repository. This release includes the > latest performance improvements we have made to the application > including the use of the Plack environment which simulates a > persistent run time environment for PERL. In that release, > circulation transactions are now 1/3 of a second. > > Lori - what else can I supply to help you set the record straight? > > > > -- > > 2011/8/24 Robin Sheat <[email protected]> > > > > Lori Bowen Ayre schreef op wo 24-08-2011 om 16:17 [-0700]: > > > As I read this, I recalled someone saying that the only library to > > > have gone to Koha and then switched back was a Liblime customer > > > > I'm aware of one here in NZ (that I don't think was liblime), but they > > were happily running Koha, and then joined/got absorbed into a > > consortium that mandated something else, so it wasn't a switch due to > > unhappiness with Koha. > > > > -- > > Robin Sheat > > Catalyst IT Ltd. > > ✆ +64 4 803 2204 > > GPG: 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > [email protected] > > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > > > > -- > Amy Begg De Groff > Product Manager > LibLime, a Division of PTFS, Inc. > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- Joann Ransom RLIANZA Head of Libraries, Horowhenua Library Trust.
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