CD's - aren't they dead yet?

[Tripp, Tim]

Greetings, Gentlefolk,

Apparently the reports of the CD's death as a technology have been "greatly
exaggerated."  I've been asked to investigate the feasibility of networking
a number of multimedia CD-ROM's with access via a web interface.  These are
all medical titles which are owned by our Medical Education dept.  I guess
even I had fallen victim to the hype of the web, and thought that it would
solve all of our access problems, but apparently, it has yet to match the
interactive and multimedia capabilities of the CD-ROM.

I've searched the archives, and found a number of references to W3Launch,
but there's not been much discussion on this topic in the last year - which
is hardly surprising given that most vendors now have web interfaces to
their products.  Is anybody still doing this?  Any tips or pointers you can
offer?  Frankly, I'm more tempted to find web based alternatives to these
products, I'm just not sure that comparable alternatives exist.

Tim

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