Can extra processing threads help in this case?
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From: Tom Serface on 26 Mar 2010 12:41 Hi Peter, You're going to have to set up some pretty significant tests. I would suggest you test with multiple servers, multiple times of day, multiple locations, multiple clients, etc. This will be a drag, but your application is going to require this kind of work out to be validated. The business model sounds interesting. For example, the other day I wanted to use WinZip for a week while testing a program. I didn't care about buying it, but I hate the evaluation pop up message. I would have paid $5 to use it for a week then I could go back to the Explorer and use the more easily integrated, but less featured, zip. Tom "Peter Olcott" <NoSpam(a)OCR4Screen.com> wrote in message news:SN-dnfaOMsJeVDHWnZ2dnUVZ_jednZ2d(a)giganews.com... > > "Oliver Regenfelder" <oliver.regenfelder(a)gmx.at> wrote in message > news:cf555$4bac7407$547743c7$23143(a)news.inode.at... >> Hello, >> >> Peter Olcott wrote: >>> I am trying to derive a new business model for commercializing software. >>> I want to make it so that people can rent software for a tiny cost per >>> use. >> >> I wouldn't call that itself a _new_ businessmodell. There is >> all that google stuff that comes for free, there is online >> photoshop, I think sometime ago there were rumors about an online >> office from microsoft. >> >> But maybe your approach is different. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Oliver > > The big difference that I am attempting to provide is average response > time in the ballpark of the response time that one would get from an app > that is directly installed on the local machine. It looks like this is > reasonably feasible in some cases. >
From: Peter Olcott on 26 Mar 2010 12:56 "Tom Serface" <tom(a)camaswood.com> wrote in message news:uiYs3GQzKHA.5040(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hi Peter, > > I don't think the proximity is the only gating factor. > Bandwidth for connected servers, the path of the data, > etc. all matter. If your users are directly connecting to > your server it may make a difference. It must make some > sort of difference because every professional download > site I know of has multiple "mirror" sites so that you can > select one closest to you. If nothing else, distributing > it may make some people use other servers and spread the > cycles needed to read and send the data off a little less > arduous. > > Tom Yes, and it also just occured to me that in special cases I may even be able to provide an intranet webserver.
From: Peter Olcott on 26 Mar 2010 12:59 "Tom Serface" <tom(a)camaswood.com> wrote in message news:Ox4vsMQzKHA.4752(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hi Peter, > > You're going to have to set up some pretty significant > tests. I would suggest you test with multiple servers, > multiple times of day, multiple locations, multiple > clients, etc. This will be a drag, but your application > is going to require this kind of work out to be validated. > > The business model sounds interesting. For example, the > other day I wanted to use WinZip for a week while testing > a program. I didn't care about buying it, but I hate the > evaluation pop up message. I would have paid $5 to use it > for a week then I could go back to the Explorer and use > the more easily integrated, but less featured, zip. > > Tom I was going for something more like a dime per use, pay at least a buck in advance, your account remains open indefinitely. > > "Peter Olcott" <NoSpam(a)OCR4Screen.com> wrote in message > news:SN-dnfaOMsJeVDHWnZ2dnUVZ_jednZ2d(a)giganews.com... >> >> "Oliver Regenfelder" <oliver.regenfelder(a)gmx.at> wrote in >> message >> news:cf555$4bac7407$547743c7$23143(a)news.inode.at... >>> Hello, >>> >>> Peter Olcott wrote: >>>> I am trying to derive a new business model for >>>> commercializing software. I want to make it so that >>>> people can rent software for a tiny cost per use. >>> >>> I wouldn't call that itself a _new_ businessmodell. >>> There is >>> all that google stuff that comes for free, there is >>> online >>> photoshop, I think sometime ago there were rumors about >>> an online >>> office from microsoft. >>> >>> But maybe your approach is different. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Oliver >> >> The big difference that I am attempting to provide is >> average response time in the ballpark of the response >> time that one would get from an app that is directly >> installed on the local machine. It looks like this is >> reasonably feasible in some cases. >>
From: Pete Delgado on 26 Mar 2010 13:47 "Peter Olcott" <NoSpam(a)OCR4Screen.com> wrote in message news:8fKdnUV1pfoPWDHWnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >My understanding would be much better if people would explain their >underlying reasoning. Peter, Joe, Hector and others have guided you, prodded you and given you the appropriate information in order to educate yourself. If you want someone to take the time to explain every detail and nuance, take a course that deals with the information you want to learn about or hire a consultant to explain it to you. If you want someone to create an architecture for you given your "requirements" (I only quote it because your requirements are more like a wish list rather than something driven by need), then hire someone with the appropriate expertise. The point is that at some stage of the game you must take responsibility for learning the technologies and techniques involved in commercial software development as opposed to the toy projects you created as a student. If you don't take the time to learn and won't listen to the advice of those who are experts in the field, then you are just wasting your time as well as ours. -Pete
From: Liviu on 26 Mar 2010 13:59
"Hector Santos" <sant9442(a)nospam.gmail.com> wrote... > > You're not going to get anything done because you don't have > the capacity to do so. You haven't yet in what 2-3 years? "I filed a provisional patent last August" - Peter Olcott, 12/14/2001 (message #584 in thread of 881 at http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/msg/f8161ee71a584326?hl=en) > Peter Olcott wrote: >> "Hector Santos" <sant9442(a)nospam.gmail.com> wrote... >>> >>> Of course, the real ultimate question is if you will finished by the >>> time your patent expires. >> >> The latest improvements would likely qualify for another patent, thus >> extending the term, plus there is a whole other invention of using >> this technology to provide an easy to use universal graphical user >> interface scripting language. |