{"id":1987,"date":"2007-02-21T20:17:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T01:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=232"},"modified":"2007-02-21T20:17:28","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T01:17:28","slug":"open-letter-to-ils-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/21\/open-letter-to-ils-vendors.html","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to ILS Vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roytennant.com\/\">Roy Tenant<\/a> has posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/techessence.info\/node\/83\">Open Letter to ILS Vendors<\/a>.  He makes his case wonderfully.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that we shall see an exodus away from the big vendors, and towards the open source solutions.  The momentum is beginning to build; it will only take<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>the ability to pick and choose features for your installation, and<\/li>\n<li>ease of installation and maintenance,<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>to really get the ball rolling.  And I can see those changes coming&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>(this post should have been up a few days ago&#8230; busy, busy, backson!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Tenant has posted an Open Letter to ILS Vendors. He makes his case wonderfully. I suspect that we shall see an exodus away from the big vendors, and towards the open source solutions. The momentum is beginning to build; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/21\/open-letter-to-ils-vendors.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2940,2943,2982,2966],"tags":[3309,3310],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ils","category-libraries","category-open-source","category-software","tag-open-source-solutions","tag-roy-tenant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-w3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}