Re: [Gnumed-devel] How much does GNumed cost ?

[Jim Busser]

On 2010-01-05, at 6:42 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:

> ...
> Agreed, but I would think this would be a rather smallish database and
> it may be fast enough.

Agree with the above re cost "formula", I otherwise only (also) agree with 
Karsten that it may be both a hassle and create a bad impression to prospective 
users if the database is more than very rarely inaccessible. The current public 
db has been accessible to me all ~ 100 times (except maybe once, and I think 
only when I was premature around a database upgrade, and this would not even 
have been around an official release).

Despite that (when connecting from Canada) the current public db is 
*torturously* slow, it is still useful for deducing a possible problem with 
one's local db and to see what the new GUI changes look like.

Even so it would be nice to diagnose the basis of the current slowness from 
Canada.

If and when any vendors (support companies) in other countries would start to 
handle GNUmed then maybe part of their contribution could be to set up a public 
db that would be faster than what their geographically local (or even worldwide 
citizens) would obtain from a frugal project public pb.

-- Jim Busser