Monday, October 23, 2006
Numbers
Today we are going to talk about some numbers. The Castle seems to be determined to buy Destiny from the Folly company. Possibly you would be interested in the price tag for Destiny. If the Castle has a current price quote for Destiny, they have not seen fit to share it with Dotland. However, Mohave Educational Services Cooperative has a quote. The site claims that the quote is good until 2009 although the quote itself claims to expire 12/31/2004. However, maybe the numbers in the quote can give us a rough idea of the bottom line. Destiny Library Manager for school districts with 51 or more schools has a list price of $2500 per site for districts with current support for Cataloging and Circulation. That would be about $250,000 if our support were current. Since it's not, if we have to pay back support, that would be about $312,000. In addition, the Castle also seems to be determined to buy textbook handling from Destiny. It's called Destiny Textbook Manager which lists at $2099 per site. That's about $209,900. So that's a total of $521,900 spent for library and textbook software at a time when the Duchy is cutting library support jobs, like Gold. Some of the Dots are pretty agitated about this!
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Agitated? Agitated? Who wouldn't be agitated when the inmates are running the asylum? The future for Dotland is black, indeed, for the Black Dot Queen has convinced all of those in the Duchy that worship at the feet of Technology will solve their problems, cure their ills, right all wrongs and generally make all things spiffy. With Tits and Dotland being "right sized" (dumb sized? cap sized?) who will there be to train people and oversee the peasants in Libraryland? Folly's Destiny will do it all, make it perfect, save you time, balance your checkbook and make those pesky wrinkles less noticeable. I've always believed if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
A concerned Dot
Let's see...Folly or Destiny? Destiny or Folly?. Folly in place and working...Destiny unknown and expensive? Gee, I can see where the Duchy is burning the midnight candles trying to figure out this cunundrum. Might a few coins doled out to the hard working peasants that are familiar with Folly be a better idea? Oh rats, I forgot whom I was talking about!! (or is it who?)
Perplexed peasant
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