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Dear Anton, 

We are delighted to be able to contribute to your survey. I have inserted comments below in blue. 

If you would like any further information regarding KE EMu, please do not hesitate to contact me. 

Yours faithfully, 

John Doolan 

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     Original Message      

From: Guentsch, Anton [mailto:a.guentsch@bgbm.org] 

Sent: Saturday, 28 June 2003 1:52 AM 

To: info@kesoftware.com 

Subject: GBIF survey 

Dear Sir or Madam, 

on behalf of the Global Biodiversity Facility (GBIF), the Botanic Garden and Museum Berlin, Dept. of Biodiversity Informatics is 

carrying out a survey of collection management and data capture solutions. The scope of this survey is restricted to publicly available 

systems that are used by natural history collections. 

KE EMu has been identified as one of the important software tools for collection management which should be itemised on this list. 

So far, we have collected the following information from your world wide web site 

(http://www.ke.com.au/ke/products/emu/emu.html). 

Please note that we have retired the ke.com.au domain. The correct web address for information on KE EMu is now 

www.kesoftware.com/emu. 

  > Availability and cost 

The software cannot be directly obtained (e.g. as a download), KE EMu is licensed by the number of concurrent users that can access 

KE EMu on a single server. The smallest license is for two concurrent users. 

You are correct in that trial copies of the software are not available for download (although exceptions can be made). Subscribing 

users do have access to a very broad range of Web resources including free access to new versions of the software which are available 

to them over the Web. 

  > Limitations to scalability 

Many millions of records possible. 

We have many examples of clients with millions of records on line. 

  > Computing platform limitations or specialization 

Client on Windows 95/98/NT/2000 

Mac client via terminal server 

Server on Unix/Linux and Windows NT/2000 

Client support is also available on Windows XP 

Server support is available on most mainstream versions of Unix/Linux as well as Windows NT, 2000 and XP 

  > Specialization by taxonomic group 

General collection management including biological objects (all taxa). 

KE EMu can be configured to the collection needs of any institution. The catalogue supports multiple disciplines, each with their own 

field structure, in a single, heterogeneous table. Supported disciplines include: 

  a.. Invertebrate Zoology  

  b.. Vertebrate Zoology, including mammalogy, herpetology, ichthyology, ornithology  

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