Message-Id: <199601311857.MAA18339@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:35:03 -0600 From: mailto:jelson@TWAIN.ALS.AMERITECH.COM> Subject: Re: WebPAC and ALS/Vmark licenses To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
>I was a skeptic of PAC for Windows, but have a very different reaction to
>the WebPAC product now under development (this after seeing Sirsi's Web
>product demo'd--which looks far more advanced than ALS, at this point.) But
>I do have some trouble imagining how ALS is going to price this product
>without some drastic change in their current ALS and VMark per port license
>fees.
>Our service area is over half a million in population, with a high
>percentage of computers in homes and--to date--12 local Internet providers.
>With WebPAC in place, it's easy to imagine simultaneous remote users
>numbered in the hundreds. At the same time, our in-house number of ports is
>now 260, and probably would top out at under 500.
>Each library now contributes a port fee for what they are using. How`could
>we afford to support all those remote users under the current per port
>licensing fees, and how could our libraries have a prayer of not only
>picking up that cost, but dividing it equitably?
> Jerry Kuntz
> Electronic Resources Consultant
> Ramapo Catskill Library System
> mailto:jkuntz@mhv.net
The Ameritech Library Services WebPAC product is priced according to the number of volumes at an institution, not the number of simultaneous users. I am unaware of any other pricing arrangement. What is your source for the simultaneous user pricing scheme?
John Elson Ameritech Library Services Customer Support mailto:jelson@als.ameritech.com http://www.als.ameritech.com/webmaster.htm