Re: Open architecture ILS?

[Marc Truitt <mtruitt@nd.edu>]

Hi,

FWIW, you might add Ex Libris' Aleph500 (Oracle) to your list of ILSes
that use SQL-based database engines.

regards,

- Marc

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Barrett_Jones@ao.uscourts.gov wrote [in part] :
> 
>      There are a couple other ILS products out there that allow you to run
>      SQL queries to the database. Epixtech's (or however they spell it)
>      Horizon system uses Sybase and you can run SQL queries, build your own
>      indexes, etc. EOS's Q system runs on either Oracle or MS SQL and you
>      can do a lot of customizing, including queries. There may be others
>      but those are the two I'm familar with.
> 
>      barrett "shill for the vendors"
> 
> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: Open architecture ILS?
> Author:  "Karen Harker" <Karen.Harker@UTSouthwestern.edu> at ~Internet
> Date:    8/10/00 10:27 PM
> 
> I'm a librarian by trade, but have been developing Web applications for our libr
> ary for a couple of years.  Lately, I've become frustrated by our ILS
> (Unicorn),mainly in the inability to openly communicate with it.  We have a
>  wonderful patron database that is inaccessible from anywhere except Unicorn. We
> cannot link topre-defined searches (i.e. New Books, all books on molecular
>  biology of lung cancer, etc.). These are the two main examples.
> 
> It all boils down to the fact that Unicorn is a closed system - only Unicorn mod
> ules can access the data. Being uneducated in computer science, is this what is
> referred to as "closed architecture"?
> 
> No matter what it's called, what are some good systems out there that, at the ve
> ry least, use a database that can be queried with SQL (i.e. Oracle, MS SQL (I kn
> ow...forgive me), etc.)?
> 
> Thanks.
> Karen R. Harker
> UT Southwestern Medical Library
> Dallas, Texas
> 
>