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Re: ION Question [message #43361]

Thu, 07 April 2005 12:57

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Michael Wallace writes:

> It depends on your audience. Our application was going to be rather
> intensive and we decided to put that burden on the server rather than on
> client machines. It was much easier to buy a single beefy server
> instead of putting up a message to all our end users saying "thou shalt
> use a much faster processor and more memory."

Oh, well, we are in a position to dictate to the end
users what equipment they have to have to run our
programs. If they don't have it and complain, we just
shrug our shoulders and say "we told you so." :-)

> How much of this needs to be dynamic and how much can you pre-generate
> and store off to the side? If there's a way to create images or data
> sets ahead of time, I'd recommend doing that and then serve up the
> image/data set when requested. To the end user, it will appear like
> it's being created on the fly. If you were using a database behind the
> scenes, everything could be stored in there, including annotations and
> other meta-data, of course I'm probably going way beyond what you had in
> mind. :-p

Well, I didn't have much in mind. But this whole discussion
is definitely making me more pessimistic than I was hoping it
would. :-(

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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		Re: ION Question By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 07 April 2005 12:40
		Re: ION Question By: David Fanning on Wed, 06 April 2005 10:48
		Re: ION Question By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 06 April 2005 10:11
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