Reinhard Doelz (doelz at comp.bioz.unibas.ch) wrote:
: There is no free lunch, and I still hope that biologists will learn it
: some day.
: NetEntrez is a service which is NOT FREE. It is currently free for the
: subscribers. No one mentiones the networks here, which cost a fortune!
: What is cheaper; $100 for the CD's or the network line? If there are more
: than a certain number of people using it at the same time, the CD is the ONLY
: solution one should dare looking into.
We have network lines, but do not have a CD player. I would think with
the resources on Internet, that the value for getting a network connection
in an institution that is already connected to Internet is much better
than getting a CD player...especially one that can be accessed by multiple
users.
: Don't understand me wrong; NEtEntrez is a great piece of software, but
: I doubt it will scale (costwise) if all and everybody uses transatlantic
: lines if there could be the same for a fraction of the money!
Perhaps someone in the European community could set up Entrez
dispatchers there to alleviate the transatlantic problem.
In terms of network bandwidth usage, is there not the same problem
with World Wide Web Servers and the sometimes useless icons and gifs that
they contain?
: Regards
: Reinhard
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