Cheers John, Our hope is that another library who are more standards focused, and use MARC and Z3950 will pick those up as their contribution to the project - either getting us to write it, or having their own people do it. Those things weren't *most* important to Horowhenua Library, so they aren't in these first releases. We at Katipo are always going to be most focused on those libraries that have commissioned changes and new modules, but we will gladly undertake new commisions, and help/colaborate with other projects. There are other MARC projects and I think Z3950 project in the open source library community, and hooking in with them would be fantastic from our point of view. Seriously we are unlikely to take over the world - certainly the american market is pretty daunting, but there are lots of other libraries just like ours we're sure who have to pay for MARC and end up throwing most of it away anyway, who have time but not $$, or who want more control over their own destiny.

i hope too that koha takes over the world. but it's ultimately going to come down to two factors in my mind: stability and standards.

We are very conscious of stability - and running over crappy lines on crappy gear is one of the situations we've engineered for. We are rewriting modules that have been giving us trouble, and fully expect to continue to refine the system. We have an expectation of no unplanned server downtime other than from gear failure, no more than "normal" browser flakeyness, and no core dumps on the telnet circ module Standards - well we are lead by our librarians - personnally I wouldn't know a library standard if it hit me on the head, they tell me how the library runs, and we make a system that facilitates that. Cheers Rachel _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications WEBMISTRESS ph 025 300 825 or +64 04 389 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 7039, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand