The document discusses open source software (OSS) solutions used by libraries, including Koha, Evergreen, and Drupal. It summarizes Bibliotheque's involvement with Koha in France, including their growth as a vendor providing Koha support and services. It also briefly introduces Evergreen integrated library system and Drupal projects like SOPAC that integrate a library catalog with Drupal. The document advocates an approach using Drupal and Lucene/Solr to build a flexible catalog system.
40. On the web, tools age very quickly -> requires a lot of Human ressources that libraries don't necessarily have -> OSS adapts well to this new situation : we don't sell a tool, we sell services
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42. A lot of lightweight companies (little overhead costs)
43. We don't have bad habits nor VCs behind us and are often militants of OSS
51. « les temps demeurent cependant difficiles pour les petites et moyennes sociétés du secteur et pour quelques rares grandes entreprises qui n’arrivent pas à faire face au développement des logiciels libres. » Marc Maisonneuve, Tosca, March 2009 (in LH 767)