Hi Jami, and thanks Don! Just a couple minor clarifications...
On 7/26/07, Don McMorris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/26/07, Jami Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am researching the transition from a commercial ILS system to an open source ILS system and have a couple questions: > > 1. What commercial system was PINES using prior to the Evergreen implementation? > I believe it was DRA/Dynix Classic, but I'm not 100% sure...
It was Unicorn, actually. Same vendor now a-days, though. :) [snip]
> 3. If so, did each library maintain its own installation that talked to a central system or was the original commercial implementation completely centralized? (I have read about the 5 year contract expiring and wonder if each server at each institution was expiring at the same time or only one at a central location) > As far as I know, the original system was housed on servers at a central location. This is the same way the current system is implemented.
It was on a single central ($2M+) Solaris server, yes. Now PINES is on a central cluster of about 30 Linux servers (failover, HA, etc) for about 1/8 the total cost. --miker
