[Koha] Google Apps

[Joe Atzberger]

Jim --

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.

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.

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. :)

--Joe Atzberger

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Weinheimer Jim <j.weinheimer at aur.edu> wrote:

>  All,
>
> 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?
>
> James Weinheimer
> The American University of Rome
>  <http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha>
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