Thanks Mick, yes I can confirm that PTFS Europe implement, host and
support the Koha community version.
We are a major contributor to Koha and are just about to submit
EDIFACT orders and quotes to the community, together with a housebound
capability, hourly loans and various other enhancements.
Nick
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PTFS Europe Ltd
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> On 15/09/2011 12:05, Mick Fortune wrote:
>> I believe PTFS Europe supply pukka OS Koha whereas their US cousins supply
>> LibLime Koha but perhaps Nick could enlighten us?
>>
>> Mick
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: A general Library and Information Science list for news and
>> discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Thomas Krichel
>> Sent: 15 September 2011 11:57
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>> Subject: Re: FW: low cost Library systems for small libraries RE: ILS for a
>> small learned society library
>>
>> Ken Chad writes
>>
>>> PTFS Europe Ltd (provides support, implementation and dev for open
>>> source
>>> Koha)
>> AFAIK, PTFS sell LibLime Enterprise Koha. This is a closed-source
>> fork of the open-source Koha.
>>
>>> As for costs the purchase price of the software may well be the
>>> smallest factor in overall costs. For example Koha software is open
>>> source and free of charge
>> Community Koha, as available athttp://koha-community.org is
>> indeed free of charge.
>>
>>> but there are still costs in terms of implementation,
>> Implementing is not difficult for somebody basic unix skills, or
>> somebody willing to learn them. It's something that pretty much
>> anybody can do. Running the actual server is more problematic
>> and I would recommend outsourcing that.
>>
>>> training etc
>> Training is something you would have to do with any ILS.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel
>> http://authorprofile.org/pkr1
>> skype: thomaskrichel
>>
>>
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