LibLime to Acquire CARE Affiliates
ATHENS, OH and BLACKSBURG, VA--July 29, 2008 -– LibLime, the leader in open source solutions for libraries and CARE Affiliates™ announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement to sell select assets of CARE Affiliates to LibLime. The sale will include select products, related services and domain names along with associated service contracts. Final closing is scheduled for August 2008.
Carl Grant, President of CARE
Affiliates will be taking a new position as president of Ex Libris,
North America, effective immediately. "I'm delighted that LibLime has
decided to acquire these assets," said Carl. "This will ensure the
continuation of these products/services well into the future. I look
forward to seeing how LibLime grows these ideas. I also feel it's
important to say that this sale and my move is based primarily on
personal reasons and is in no way a reflection on the open-source
community or service providers serving libraries. Open source has a
vibrant future in libraries and I'm pleased to say that Ex Libris is
one of the proprietary vendors listening to this community as evidenced
by their recent announcement about their new Open Platform strategy. I
will continue to stay engaged with the library open-source community,
albeit in a different role."
"We've been proud to list CARE Affiliates as one of our strategic
partners since they started supporting open source in 2007," says
Joshua Ferraro, CEO of LibLime. "This arrangement gives us increased
capacity to deliver open-source and open architecture solutions for
libraries in the strategic area of metasearching."
LibLime's acquisition of CARE again highlights one strength of
open-source solutions -- no vendor lock-in. CARE's customers don't need
to worry about switching to new solutions. With open source, switching
vendors doesn't mean switching software.
This is LibLime's third acquisition since the company's inception in
2005. Earlier acquisitions include Ohio-based Skemotah Solutions and
Katipo Communications' Koha division in New Zealand.
About CARE Affiliates, Inc.
CARE Affiliates provides services and products based on open-source
software to libraries and information centers around the world. These
services include consulting, selection, packaging, integration,
installation, support, hosting (SaaS), maintenance and continued
development. Products include repositories, federated search tools,
preservation and archiving solutions. Learn more about CARE at http://www.care-affiliates.com
About LibLime
LibLime is the global leader in open-source solutions for libraries,
with a mission to make open source accessible to libraries. Rather than
sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products,
LibLime educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling
them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and
staff with better technology services. LibLime then facilitates
implementation of open-source in libraries by providing outstanding
development, customization, support and training solutions--solutions
tailored to each library's needs. For more information, see http://liblime.com.
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