I know "I'm late with the idea", I do follow the list :-) What I asked was if there are koha implementations on the major clouds out there (Amazon, Microsoft etc.), ready-made for their customer to use. Therefore, the library is a customer of the cloud provider, and seeks only consultation from Koha support providers. Quite a different business scenario, as neither the Koha consultant nor the customer need to have their own infrastructure in order to have a large/scalable Koha installation. Unless of course Amazon and Microsoft are already on the Koha support provider list, and I'm simply not up-to-date. Manos -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Mirko Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 11:44 PM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] koha as a ready-made VM appliance? Manos PETRIDIS schrieb am 08.08.2013
n fact it could be a godsend for small libraries that can't invest even in the smaller koha local set-up. Perhaps someone could even "sell" his/her expertise in setting-up koha and supporting libraries under this scheme. The software may be open and free, the know-how is not.
Lots of people "sell" their expertise. That is the way business is done with free software. We even have a whole website of Koha support providers. Most people developing Koha are part of Koha support companies. I am sure there are way more libraries using a hosted version of Koha than run it on their own servers. You may be a bit late with that idea. ;) -- Mirko _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha