Kind of an interesting merger in the library ILS world: Endeavor and Ex Libris are merging. Until recently, I worked in a library that used Endeavor’s Voyager ILS, and was impressed with many things that it could do, but also frustrated with many of the things it should have been able to do.
This could be good, depending on what is retained from each of the companies. It seems that, from an Endeavor viewpoint, this will give much more of an international reach to Voyager customers, given Ex Libris’ worldwide base.
The big picture, however, is going to be how the big players respond to the rising influence and quality of Open Source ILS, such as Evergreen and Koha (LibLime, too).
