Re: (ET) Possible CD-ROM

["Walter " <dwfh starlinx com>]

My point exactly. With the cheap technology available today why spend the
time/money to produce a limited sales item. If say someone was to put out
the effort and make a fully searchable database of the Electrak and sell it
for say $100. How long before it showed up on Ebay? Also who out there 
would
spend the $100 or more for such a CD? As far as the copyright fees if
applicable.
Any thoughts?
Walter
----- Original Message -----
From: <JeffT softlanding com>
To: <elec-trak cosmos5 phy tufts edu>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: (ET) Possible CD-ROM


> If you used Access to create the CD you can use the developers edition to
> create freely distributable clients. These "clients" would have to be in
> the form of an interface providing access to canned reports or searches.
> Since it would be fairly easy to provide text searches that wouldn't
> necessarily be a bad thing (depending the on the database structure) On
the
> plus side the CD would still have the Access database file on it and any
> user with Access on their system could use just database file any way 
> they
> wanted too.
>
> But Adobe Acrobat provides similar searching capability via text and
> keywords. You just need more time to create the index. The drawback is
that
> if you only have the Acrobat Reader you are pretty limited in what you 
> can
> do with the content besides viewing and printing. That might also be a
plus
> as far getting permission to produce this from the copyright owners.
>
> In either case OCR  is a necessary part of the process and requires
> proofreading as even the latest OCR software does not offer 100% 
> accuracy.
>
> In any case, if the CD-ROM gets to the production phase, I have access to
> an 8-drive 4X CDR jukebox here at my work so I can make a lot of copies
> easily.
>
> Jeff Tickner
> C/S Developer
> SoftLanding Systems
> 603-924-8818 ext 536
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