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Replacing a proprietary back end with one based on MySQL or whatever
would require III to basically pitch a lot their code and start
practically from scratch. That's a pretty heavy business decision.
You can buy an ILS with a relational database back end, and you can
even get ones that have PERL or PHP front ends with an open source
database on the back. Relatively few libraries opt for these solutions
for a variety of reasons.
Having the ability to query the database in SQL would be handy, but I
don't think it would change things for most libraries. The hard part is
not knowing how to open a connection to a database and query it with SQL
(which has some serious limitations as a language), but rather
understanding the data that are there.
kyle
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