A couple of interesting points in the opening presentation from Matti Shem-Tov (CEO of Ex Libris) – one is an initiative to develop the various ‘public’ interfaces to the Ex Libris products (Aleph OPAC, SFX, MetaLib, XML services) – I’m looking forward to hereing more about this. Secondly, Ex Libris is going ‘public’ as a company. They are expecting to make an initial offering in mid-October. This is to raise funds for development, and to fund expansion of the company – especially in the Asian market. Also to fund the possible acquisition of complementary companies and technologies – which is very interesting …

For all those eager investors out there, I’m afraid that the offereing is being made on the AIM Stock Exchange – which means that the shares will not go to individual investors, but financial institutions