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| <th align="left">The Cathedral & the Bazaar</th> | <th align="left">The Cathedral & the Bazaar</th> |
| <td align="left">A book written by Eric S. Raymond (O’Reilly, 1999). A must read if you are new to <strong><a href="#open_source">open source</a></strong></p> | <td align="left">A book written by Eric S. Raymond (O’Reilly, 1999). A must read if you are new to <strong><a href="#open_source">open source</a></strong> |
| <p>Librarians who read it and hear the poetry behind the details will realize that open source works very much like we do.</p> | <p>Librarians who read it and hear the poetry behind the details will realize that open source works very much like we do.</p> |
| <p>Wikipedia has a short discussion of the major principles of open source development in its entry on this book:<br /> | <p>Wikipedia has a short discussion of the major principles of open source development in its entry on this book:<br /> |
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| <th align="left">Cloud computing</th> | <th align="left">Cloud computing</th> |
| <td align="left"><a name="cloud"></a>“…Web-based processing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices (such as smartphones) on demand over the Internet.” <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing</a>.</p> | <td align="left"><a name="cloud"></a>“…Web-based processing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices (such as smartphones) on demand over the Internet.” <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing</a>. |
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| <p>ILS vendors offer hosting where they manage the servers used by the online catalogs of libraries and provide access to those catalogs via the Internet. Terms such as <em>Software as a Service (SaaS)</em> refer to these kinds of services. In this sense, all such hosted solutions used by libraries are cloud computing and <strong><a href="#Evergreen">Evergreen</a></strong> was doing cloud computing before the term became popular. As with many new things in the IT world, the definition of what constitute cloud computing is a bit fuzzier and covers a multitude of computing arrangements.</p> | <p>ILS vendors offer hosting where they manage the servers used by the online catalogs of libraries and provide access to those catalogs via the Internet. Terms such as <em>Software as a Service (SaaS)</em> refer to these kinds of services. In this sense, all such hosted solutions used by libraries are cloud computing and <strong><a href="#Evergreen">Evergreen</a></strong> was doing cloud computing before the term became popular. As with many new things in the IT world, the definition of what constitute cloud computing is a bit fuzzier and covers a multitude of computing arrangements.</p> |
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| <p>Evergreen is licensed under the <strong><a href="#GNU">GNU</a></strong>General Public License (<strong><a href="#GPL">GPL</a></strong>).</p> | <p>Evergreen is licensed under the <strong><a href="#GNU">GNU</a></strong>General Public License (<strong><a href="#GPL">GPL</a></strong>).</p> |
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| <th align="left">Evergreen Community</th> | <th align="left">Evergreen Community</th> |
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| <blockquote>“In networking, load balancing is a technique to distribute workload evenly across two or more computers, network links, CPUs, hard drives, or other resources, in order to get optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overload. Using multiple components with load balancing—instead of a single component—may increase reliability through redundancy. The load balancing service is usually provided by a dedicated program or hardware device (such as a multilayer switch or a DNS server).”<br /> | <blockquote>“In networking, load balancing is a technique to distribute workload evenly across two or more computers, network links, CPUs, hard drives, or other resources, in order to get optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overload. Using multiple components with load balancing—instead of a single component—may increase reliability through redundancy. The load balancing service is usually provided by a dedicated program or hardware device (such as a multilayer switch or a DNS server).”<br /> |
| <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_balancing_(computing)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_balancing_(computing)</a></p></blockquote> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_balancing_(computing)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_balancing_(computing)</a></blockquote> |
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| <td align="left"><a name="Perl"></a>“Perl is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 22 years of development.” (<a href="http://www.perl.org">http://www.perl.org/</a>.) Perl is used extensively in the Evergreen community. | <td align="left"><a name="Perl"></a>“Perl is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 22 years of development.” (<a href="http://www.perl.org">http://www.perl.org/</a>.) Perl is used extensively in the Evergreen community. |
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| <o>From Wikipedia’s entry: | <p>From Wikipedia’s entry: |
| <blockquote>“Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation, but as of 2010 used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, games, bioinformatics, and GUI development.</p> | <blockquote>“Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation, but as of 2010 used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, games, bioinformatics, and GUI development.<br /> |
| “The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).”<br /> | “The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).”<br /> |
| <br />(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl</a>)</blockquote></p> | <br />(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl</a>)</blockquote></p> |
