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 <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
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.
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