Ladies & gentlemen,
We're competing more and more against providers that promote a "cloud
multi-tenant LMS".
Koha is a cloud application (and it is since 2000, long before cloud is
born).
What does "multi-tenant" mean ? It mean that you'll get access to many
resources that are shared worldwide.
I think that the "multi-tenancy" is a way for proprietary vendors to
lock-in their customers [1]. But the idea of having a worldwide database
for some informations is interesting and relevant. Proprietary vendors
take care of updating this database. Open Source projects are not
working centrally, so we must find another way of creating and
maintaining such a database.
With this thing in mind, BibLibre has decided to sponsor an intern +
some internal resources for next summer dedicated to a project dedicated
to sharing data between koha instances worldwide.
I wrote a 1st draft of RFC and I'd like to have your feedback:
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SharingDatasBetweenKohas_rfc
If this project is successful, in the automn version of Koha, we may see
a way to share worlwide data between all Koha libraries !
[1] if you're a proprietary vendor and are reading this: I don't mean
it's the only reason for multi-tenancy.
--
Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner
BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques
BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries
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