[Koha-devel] Convincing City IT Dept.

[David Schuster]

I really think what Ed is asking is how can he get his management to pay for
Migration and support for this "Free" Opensource software....

I have no doubt they are willing to use Koha, but IT people see it as a
database is a database just "upload your data"...

The key here is - ok when I have a patron who checks out a book and it says
it is the wrong book who do I call...  Or - if you are using any SIP items -
How do I get the system up an running and talking...  How many hours did it
take you with the existing system to get it up and running and tell them an
IT person will have to work on setting this up.  Do they have a programmer
up to speed already with Perl to fix things that break?

You might also mention that there is this circulation data that has to move
as well and there isn't a standard for moving that so how do you propose
getting that data out and into Koha?  LibLime will do that for you...  Not
to mention the status' on all your items.  Unless you are going cold turkey
and loosing all your history on your old system.

You want to setup the system the most efficiently right, but you don't have
the time so Migration costs are legit...  to pay LibLime.  

Those are my 2 cents.

David Schuster

Michael Hafen-3 wrote:
> 
> I would start by pointing them at the MARC standard:
> http://www.loc.gov/marc/ , and tell them to start there.  If that
> doesn't dissuade them then look up the z39.50 protocol, and tell them
> that that is the next step.  Then point them at IndexData's Zebra
> engine, and that's the next step.
> 
> Then tell them "or we can use Koha which has already done all this work
> for you".
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:31 -0500, Ed Veal wrote:
>> I have an interesting situation here. We had LibLime come and give us
>> a presentation last week and I thought it would be best to invite the
>> city IT staff to take a look so that they could be onboard with any
>> decision that we make.  However, what has happened is that they seem
>> to think that they have the expertise to do this on their own. I
>> shudder at the thought. They have already set up a server and are
>> wanting my advice and guidance in migrating data. My advice is to
>> contract it out, we don't have the resources or the expertise to
>> accomplish this. 
>>  
>> So my question is how do I convince the IT department of this? I can't
>> seem to get it through to them that this is not just any old SQL
>> database.
>>  
>>  
>> ****************************************************************
>> Edward Veal (eveal at mail.ci.lubbock.tx.us)
>> System Administrator 
>> Lubbock Public Library
>> http://www.lubbocklibrary.com
>> Mahon Library 
>> 1306 9th St. 
>> Lubbock, TX 79401
>> voice: 806-775-2849
>> fax: 806-775-2827
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