> From: mathog at seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
> Subject: Re: EGCG 9.0 and beyond
...
> >we can say that most of sites are running GCG8 because they are waiting
> >for EGCG9 before installing GCG9, so that makes 4 months of licensing for
> >an unuse software suite...
>
> Today I'm writing the letter in which we officially stop GCG maintenance.
> We will continue to run 8.1 under our existing license agreement, but never
> go to 9.0.
We are thinking the same but for other reasons: we are labouring
with GCG on an Alpha AXP running VMS, with a network of PCs
accessing it - and have NEVER managed to get a satisfactory
W-Windows emulator in order to use the GUI for GCG. Now that the
new package makes so much use of a windowing interface, our use of
it will be even less optimal. We are seriously thinking of tossing
it all in and going for a a one-off installation on our PC network of
DNASIS or similar: we no longer need the processing power of a
(mini)mainframe, and BLASTS, etc, on the Web have become so easy and
so quick that we no longer need a database locally. We've had a good
run, but...GCG ported to PCs under Windows (go on, cringe, all you
power users) would have been a wonderful option; as it is, its
functionality is no better than a number of PC packages that cost a
LOT less to maintain.
I could, of course, be persuaded otherwise if someone were to solve
our X-Windows problem...?
Ed Rybicki, PhD
Dept Microbiology | ed at molbiol.uct.ac.za
University of Cape Town | rybicki at uctvms.uct.ac.za
Private Bag, Rondebosch | phone: x27-21-650-3265
7700, South Africa | fax: x27-21-689 7573
WWW URL: http://www.uct.ac.za/microbiology/ed.html
"Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars..."
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Ed Rybicki, PhD
Dept Microbiology | ed at molbiol.uct.ac.za
University of Cape Town | rybicki at uctvms.uct.ac.za
Private Bag, Rondebosch | phone: x27-21-650-3265
7700, South Africa | fax: x27-21-689 7573
WWW URL: http://www.uct.ac.za/microbiology/ed.html
"Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars..."
