Friday, October 3, 2008
Muddiest point - wk 7
In the article on Dismantling ILS Roland Dietz is quoted to have said, "incremental functionality improvements [to existing systems] are more and more expensive." Why is this the case? Having worked in a library that used III Millennium system, I have experienced this phenomenon first hand. Each update to the system came with a huge price tag. How can it be so expensive to add improvements to an existing infrastructure?
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i guess two possibilities, not necessarily true for all cases. 1. as system get more functions, the system get more complicated. so it costs more to develop complicated systems. 2. since it is hard for a library to switch to another system, the vendor get upper hand to set up the price.
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