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>
<br>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>
<br>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>
<br>--Joe Atzberger<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Weinheimer Jim <<a href="mailto:j.weinheimer@aur.edu">j.weinheimer@aur.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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<br>
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