---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:57:14 +0530 From: Shivraj Thorat Dear Professionals, I came across Vinod Kumar Mishra's post regarding Automation: a suggestion to new Institutes, I have surprised by his suggestion because there are some commercial vendors who are keeping their monopoly and non cooperating in migrating to another software, but are they (OSS) supporting in such issues. i am experiencing OSS movement via seminars, workshops etc. but i have a query that are they aware about cost of bibliographic data? really such data have cost but now a days nobody is thinking about this but they uses OSS. all OSS are safe and secure. they will also show their policies later. or OSS may using bibliographic data commercial purposes. one will know cost of bibliographic data after considering various products from OCLC etc. so, saying OSS are best than commercial softwares is not fully right. On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:40 AM, wrote:

Date: 26 Jun 2013 03:19:26 -0000 From: "Vinod Kumar Mishra" solutions for libraries specially in the area of Automation, they may use Koha, Newgenlib, evergreen, etc. with the community support or just by inviting some experts for 2-3 days. After adopting it you may easily compare it with commercial ones like Libsys, VTLS, Soul etc. The most import thing is you will have full freedom to switch over to new software (commercial/OSS) without any difficulty but at the same time if you will adopt commercial you may be in big problem in switching over to open world as per latest trends.

Please remember no commercial firm will easily allow you to migrate your data. So its my personal view is to go for OSS and compare it later on with commercial as per your requirements at the same time also keep contact with the Institutions who is using the various software.

Thanking You.

With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library, NIT Rourkela, Mob:91+9455306495 91+6612462103 (O) email: vinod_librarian@rediffmail.com : mishravk79@gmail.com