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Zentity is entirely consistent with their market strategy. It would be defeatist of them to take such an attitude. Why would they write software for a non-microsoft platform? They have made some good software, which should be useful and is in a good position to leverge the functionality of other Microsoft products. For example, integrating the office suite into the academic publishing lifecycle could be very useful for academics. David. The On 28 April 2010 15:17, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > It seems to me that the major flaw of the software is that it isn't > cross-platform, which comes as no surprise. But I feel Microsoft didn't do > their market research. While the financial and business sectors are > heavily > reliant on Microsoft servers, American universities, and by extension, > research libraries, are not. If they really wanted to make a "commitment > to > support the academic community" as they say on the Zentity website, they > would have developed it for a platform that the academic community actually > uses. > > Ethan > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:11 AM, David Kane <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Andy, > > > > It is a highly extensible platform, based on .NET and windows. It is > also > > open source! We did install it and have a play around with it. But not > as > > much as we would have liked, primarily because of skillset and resource > > issues here. > > > > Microsoft have come late into the repository space, and have had a really > > good look at the kinds of mistakes others have made. > > > > Let us know how you get on. > > > > David. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 28 April 2010 14:54, Andrew Ashton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > Iım looking for some background information on Microsoftıs Zentity > (their > > > digital repository software). If anyone has first-hand experience > > working > > > with it, or if you know of institutions that have implemented it, > please > > > contact me. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Andy Ashton > > > Senior Research Programmer > > > Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library > > > [log in to unmask] > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > David Kane > > Systems Librarian > > Waterford Institute of Technology > > Ireland > > http://library.wit.ie/ > > [log in to unmask] > > T: ++353.51302838 > > M: ++353.876693212 > > > -- David Kane Systems Librarian Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland http://library.wit.ie/ [log in to unmask] T: ++353.51302838 M: ++353.876693212