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So what's the price point that EZProxy needs to climb to make it more realistic to put resources into an alternative. At $500/year, I don't even have to think about justifying it. At 1% (or less) of the cost of position with little to no prior experience needed, it doesn't make a lot of sense to invest in an open source alternative, even on a campus that heavily uses Shibboleth. Tim On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Ross Singer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Not only that, but it's also expressly designed for the purpose of reverse > proxying subscription databases in a library environment. There are tons > of things vendors do that would be incredibly frustrating to get working > properly in Squid, nginx, or Apache that have already been solved by > EZProxy. Which is self-fulfilling: vendors then cater to what EZProxy does > (rather than improving access to their resources). > > Art Rhyno used to say that the major thing that was inhibiting the > widespread adoption of Shibboleth was how simple and cheap EZProxy was. I > think there is a lot of truth to that. > > -Ross. > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask] > >wrote: > > > > EZproxy is a self-installing statically compiled single binary > download, > > > with a built-in administrative interface that makes most common > > > administrative tasks point-and-click, that works on Linux and Windows > > > systems, and requires very little in the way of resources to run. It > > also > > > has a library of a few hundred vendor stanzas that can be copied and > > pasted > > > and work the majority of the time. > > > > > > To successfully replace EZproxy in this setting, it would need to be > > > packaged in such a way that it is equally easy to install and maintain, > > and > > > the library of vendor stanzas would need to be developed as apache > conf.d > > > files. > > > > > > > This. The real gain with EZProxy is that configuring it is crazy easy. > You > > just drop it in and run it -- it's feasible for someone with no > experience > > in proxying or systems administration to get it operational in a few > > minutes. That is why I think virtualizing a system that makes accessing > the > > more powerful features of EZProxy easy is a good alternative. > > > > kyle > > > -- Tim McGeary [log in to unmask] GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary 484-294-7660 (cell)