VTLS Offers No Roaming Deal
By Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 4/15/2007
VTLS is offering a free license to its Virtua integrated library system (ILS) under a new “No Roaming” program to North American libraries that consent “to sign a three-year maintenance agreement.” To sweeten the deal further, the first five takers will be eligible for a 50 percent discount on the vendor’s VITAL digital repository product. The program is open to facilities “running products for which their vendor has announced the end of life.”
“We’re very concerned when we see a large number of libraries feeling that they are boxed in,” said Vinod Chachra, the company’s chief executive officer. “They have options, and they don’t need to roam far to find that Virtua is a thoroughly modern ILS, using Oracle and featuring full functionality that will help their library to stay on the cutting edge of technology,” he said.
