Re: STEVE & folksonomies / was subject & keyword searching

2005-12-09 Thread Guenter . Waibel
Will et al., just one quick comment on the whole notion of pre-coordinated subject headings - I'm leaning a little bit out of the window here, and if Richard Urban has had his class on MARC cataloguing yet, he may stand ready to correct me :-). However, here 'tis to the best of my knowledge: In M

Re: [MCN-L] Linux or Windows Servers?

2005-12-09 Thread Perian Sully
Thank you everyone for your comments and suggestions and experiences.   When I spoke to KE Software about running on a Windows server, they assured me that, despite running on a Unix emulator, there would be no performance issues on it vs. a Unix server.   I was not aware that OS X Server was

Re: [MCN-L] Linux or Windows Servers?

2005-12-09 Thread Matt Morgan
Perian Sully wrote: Hi all:   We're ramping up to purchase a server and several workstations for our new Collections database and we have pro and con arguments for either Linux or Windows servers.   Currently, we're leaning heavily toward purchasing KE EMu for our database s

Re: [MCN-L] Linux or Windows Servers?

2005-12-09 Thread Tom A.
I second what Rich had to say. We do use a Win03 server for our intranet collection database, mainly because of IT "standards", but our public web portal and image database is run on OS X using OSS solutions. As for KE eMU, I did not dig around too much into it, but it looks to be mainly bas

Re: Linux or Windows Servers?

2005-12-09 Thread Real, Will
? Perian et al., EMu (or rather, its underlying database, Texpress) is natively UNIX. We opted to run it on Windows server because as others have pointed out, our IT staff was expert in Windows server management but had no experience with UNIX/Linux. I have no direct experience to compare EMu'

Technology's No Tea Party for Small Museums

2005-12-09 Thread Angela Spinazze
* Apologies for cross posting ** Help us set the agenda for a moderated discussion about technology and small museums that will take place in Boston, Massachusetts during the AAM Annual Meeting 2006. Go to http://www.mediaandtechnology.org Click on Technology Survey and tell us how you

Re: [MCN-L] Linux or Windows Servers?

2005-12-09 Thread Rich Hephner
I think you may as well of asked, "Which religion do you recommend?," but having said that, I would echo what others have said. The real question is which platform is the software designed for. That's where it will give you the best performance. If I may be so bold. Why don't you consider a Mac Se