Evergreen has reached Beta
It’s hard to believe it has been almost 2 years since we started down the path to create a powerful, flexible, open source, enterprise-class ILS. I’m very happy to report today that we’ve reach an important milestone on this journey: Beta. The PINES libraries have already been working hard on an internal release of the … Continue Reading about Evergreen has reached Beta →
Behind the Curtain
In about every meeting or presentation we participate in, we’re asked about the PINES/Evergreen servers, what they are, where they live, how many there are… basically, what is behind the green curtain? Some PINES librarians that attended the focus group meetings we held in February got an opportunity to take a tour of the datacenter … Continue Reading about Behind the Curtain →
A few quick platform updates
We’ve decided to move all RDBMS development to MySQL. MS Sequel Server was a close second, but since Oracle bought up all the MySQL storage engines of consequence, what could go wrong?!?! We’ll be moving all first generation OpenSRF applications to Python, because, well, I was wrong. Whitespace is syntax. Also, no more JSON. We’re … Continue Reading about A few quick platform updates →