[Publib] An Analysis Of Open Source ILS Market Penetration

[Blake Carver]

An Analysis Of Open Source ILS Market Penetration
http://features.lisnews.org/features/07/10/15/118229.shtml
This ILS Market Analysis was written by Bob Molyneux contains
preliminary figures might be of interest to the publib readers.
Bob looks at which U.S. public libraries currently run open source ILS
software, and how Koha and Evergreen usage stacks up.

"There are a number of ways one might measure the impact of open
source ILS software on U.S. public libraries but I think these
preliminary figures are suggestive: that few of these libraries
actually use open source software as a means of supplying their ILSs.
Of course, we know that many more have announced and the market is
dynamic. When I revisit these figures, I suspect the numbers will
change but the size of the library market is quite a bit larger than
the open source community has supplied. Its impact on the market is
around 1%, depending on which measure one uses and by the restrictive
criteria I use here."

You can read the report and see his tables for comparison at
http://www.lisnews.org/features/07/10/15/118229.shtml

-BLake Carver
LISNews.org