I believe PTFS Europe supply pukka OS Koha whereas their US cousins supply
LibLime Koha but perhaps Nick could enlighten us?
Mick
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Subject: Re: FW: low cost Library systems for small libraries RE: ILS for a
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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 at http://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 Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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