Access 2008 - Day 3, Evergreen/Conifer

Evergreen.  It has been the word of the conference.

• An ILS
• It is scalable
• Open Standards
• C, Perl, PostGres
• Runs on your old Dell
• Perhaps too modular
• The install is a bit of a handful

But the Ontario implementation team is:

Conifer a confederation of 5 institutions: McMaster, Laurentian, U of Windsor, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and Algoma Univeristy.   While the hardware is located a Guelph.  Basically it operates as a grass roots independent entity to develop Evergreen.  Wait I just got the pun.

"If cou can't open it you don't own it."

Finally the tide is changing.  I hope this works out and it goes OCUL wide. 

 UPEI has to be commended for taking a chance with Evergreen.