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Even with razor thin budgets, this is a no brainer. May they need decide between buying 10 new books or license EZProxy? Possibly, but if they have a need for EZProxy, that's still a no brainer - until a solid OSS replacement that includes as robust a developer /support community comes around. But again, at $500/year, I don't see a lot of incentive to invest in such a project. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Riley Childs <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > But there are places on a razor thin budget, and things like this throw > them off ball acne > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jan 31, 2014, at 3:32 PM, "Tim McGeary" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > 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) > -- Tim McGeary [log in to unmask] GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary 484-294-7660 (cell)