CD ROM to WWW migration

[Chuck Bearden]

One unfortunate liability of webbed databases is the vagaries of
intervening network connections.  One of the biggies that we license
in its webbed form is suffering from severe network problems, in this
case apparently at their own gateway router to the Internet.
However, one could easily imagine problems outside of the vendor's
and customer's control such as routing flaps on the backbone and
outages at a MAE.  

Nevertheless, it is hard to argue with the advantages of the 
www-based products.  

Chuck

Chuck Bearden
Network Services Librarian
Houston Public Library
Houston, TX  77002
713/247-2264 (voice)
713/247-1182 (fax)
cbearden at hpl.lib.tx.us