[Koha-devel] KOHA version 3.0, my question is about the advantages of KOHA 4

Fridolyn SOMERS fridolyn.somers at gmail.com
Mon Jun 6 12:29:45 CEST 2011


Juste for information :

The demo form LibLime website provides the revision number in "About" module
:
*
Koha version: 3.01.00.039 with LibLime Enterprise Koha build: 4.0600001*

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:

> Christian Calle Jahuira wrote:
> > Write to La Paz Bolivia, I have implemented KOHA version 3.0,
> > my question is about the advantages of KOHA 4 and LibLime,
> > which presents differences.
>
> The latest version is Koha 3.4.  There is no Koha 4 yet.
> LibLime is trying to pass off their LMS as Koha, but it is not Koha.
> Do not be tricked!  Koha would not delete its contibutor credits.
>
> As I understand it, LibLime 4.2 is actually a fork around Koha 3.0,
> which was the last version release-managed by someone from LibLime (oh
> the pain) and was end-of-lifed by koha-community last month, as in
> http://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2011-May/035542.html
>
> Also, I think that the public LibLime 4.2 is not current, with their
> customers using later versions.  So their public version is already
> obsolete by its publisher and based on a now-unsupported community
> release, so why would anyone use it unless forced or daft?
>
> This seems like a repeat of the trick when LibLime started selling
> "Enterprise Koha" - and where is that now? ;-)
>
> Koha 3.4 is clearly the place to be.  The big feature there is the
> improved template system, but since 3.0, the acquisitions module is
> significantly revamped, the system preferences editor is easier to
> use, there's bulk item editing, better reports, serials and
> cataloguing, more connections to other systems, more localisaton, tons
> of small bugs fixed and more that you can find in the release notes.
>
> Hope that informs,
> --
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