Hi all, Can anybody tell me what is the estimated cost(worth us$) of Koha2.0.1 . -- Librarian Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana (Punjab) India
Koha is free software, you won't pay FOR THE SOFTWARE, but you might (or maybe not) pay FOR SERVICES in order to have it working to your wishes. The services you may pay might be: conversion of the data in your current ILS, setup of the server and some customization (may require programming). The cost of the services varies from country to country and the expertice of the people you hire: and of course what you can pay for them. Andres Library wrote:
Hi all, Can anybody tell me what is the estimated cost(worth us$) of Koha2.0.1 .
Today at 7:45am -0300 Andrés Tarallo wrote:
Koha is free software, you won't pay FOR THE SOFTWARE, but you might (or maybe not) pay FOR SERVICES in order to have it working to your wishes. <snip> Library wrote:
Can anybody tell me what is the estimated cost(worth us$) of Koha2.0.1 .
I guess the query was about worth in term of money (US$) and not about cost. There may be similar proprietary software costing $2000, but still having feaures less than Koha. Koha may be free (cost wise) but feature wise it may have worth of $4000. So, some comparison of this sort (cost to benefit ratio, total cost of ownership etc), which may help potential user or decision maker to take infomed decision and not be misguided by marketing executive of proprietary software -- H. S. Rai
I've misunderstood the question. First of all you should have clear what you're looking for, the desired features. Then you make a comparison chart with the packages you may find more suitables, and take into account an estimation of the cost of making them work in the way you're expecting. And you make a decison. Hope this helps H S Rai wrote:
Today at 7:45am -0300 Andrés Tarallo wrote:
Koha is free software, you won't pay FOR THE SOFTWARE, but you might (or maybe not) pay FOR SERVICES in order to have it working to your wishes.
<snip>
Library wrote:
Can anybody tell me what is the estimated cost(worth us$) of Koha2.0.1 .
I guess the query was about worth in term of money (US$) and not about cost. There may be similar proprietary software costing $2000, but still having feaures less than Koha. Koha may be free (cost wise) but feature wise it may have worth of $4000.
So, some comparison of this sort (cost to benefit ratio, total cost of ownership etc), which may help potential user or decision maker to take infomed decision and not be misguided by marketing executive of proprietary software
Andrés Tarallo a écrit :
I've misunderstood the question. First of all you should have clear what you're looking for, the desired features.
Then you make a comparison chart with the packages you may find more suitables, and take into account an estimation of the cost of making them work in the way you're expecting. And you make a decison.
I had misunderstood the question too. I won't speak of features, I will speak of numbers. Koha 2.2 is 247 000 lines of code, 5 years of work. Work of 30 developpers (16 of them having commited more than 1000 lines of code, the 1st being me with 133 000 lines, the 2nd chris (from Katipo) with 40 000 lines, the 3rd being steve (canada, has left the project now) with 30 000 lines). Just for history purposes : the lowest commiter has submitted 2 lines of code (saas), but it's our wiki provider, so he is involved in Koha in another way ! PS : numbers excluding translator work, that is not small (for example, 3 persons for french 2.2) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
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