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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sorry I wasn’t specfic enough. I was
thinking of the Google App Engine hosting project that they have just
initiated. Andrew Seguin corrected this for me. Thanks.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It could be interesting. Currently, they
say everything must be written in Python but that they will add other languges
as well.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Joe Atzberger
[mailto:ohiocore@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 09, 2008
3:45 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> j.weinheimer@aur.edu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Koha] Google Apps</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jim --<br>
<br>
As one who has been using Google Apps for several years, including company-wide
at LibLime, I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. You seem to
be thinking of Google hosting Koha as an application. Yours is, as far as
I know, the first such suggestion. In fact, I don't know of Google
hosting any software that wasn't produced in house.<br>
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There are several areas of development at Google relevant to libraries,
foremost the new Google Book Services featuring an incredibly broad catalog of
scanned book images, including covers and searchable OCR text. Some Koha
users have made use of this content already. Other coders have integrated
Google Calendar widgets into their OPAC for displaying scheduled library
events. But these are far removed from running an actual ILS. <br>
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I too would love for the ILS's (and most other services) that I admin to be
hosted on Google's massive data grid, but I don't foresee that happening in the
next decade... at which point Koha server should be running on my cellphone. :)<br>
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--Joe Atzberger</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Weinheimer Jim <<a
href="mailto:j.weinheimer@aur.edu">j.weinheimer@aur.edu</a>> wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>All,<br>
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Now that Google Apps has appeared (just!), does anybody see any Koha-type
applications? Right now, everything on Google Apps must be in python, but could
local libraries run their Koha catalogs on Google, thereby saving themselves a
lot of bother?<br>
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James Weinheimer<br>
The American University of Rome</span></font></p>
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