Good News for Mac Lovers

Alexandria has long been a popular automation system in smaller school libraries with Macintosh-driven systems. Now the Salt Lake City–based COMPanion Corporation has announced that it will soon offer a version of its Alexandria Library Auto-mation product that will run on the recently released Mac OS X. This updated version will also operate with Mac OS 8.5 or later.

"It's native Macintosh, not Windows made for Macintosh," says COMPanion's Matt Moore. It is also 100 percent cross-platform for both client and server. "That is a big deal," says Moore, who notes that in library automation, a Windows server is often needed to run even Macintosh software. Moore claims that Alexandria version 5.43 "will run identically" on both Windows and Mac servers. For more information, visit www.goalexandria.com .