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We've built out some spiffy features in FCS and really like being able
to extend it ourselves. I imagine we'll probably keep doing so, although
there is an enterprise-wide installation of Breeze on campus now. When I
test-drove Breeze for the first time, I just wondered what our programmer
and I had expended all the effort in FCS for.
The answer to that question, of course, is that we built features our
people needed with the tool we could get at the time and afford and we gave
our people a feature set and an FCS installation I'm proud of. Since we've
made the investment in time and learning, we'll probably keep using it. I
certainly hope so.
Perhaps we're fortunate to have both FCS and Breeze available to us on
campus (at department and enterprise-wide levels, respectively), but to have
neither forced upon us. In general, we've been thinking about sending our
internal clients who want something standard-issue that Breeze offers to
Breeze, and keeping those who want something customized that we have built
(or can build) in FCS.
I didn't think there was such a thing as Breeze developers, but if
custom pods can be made for Breeze, then I guess there is.
As to the future of the two products, I've been operating under two
assumptions:
1. Breeze is preconfigured FCS underneath.
2. FCS and its developers are the farm team for Breeze.
Perhaps FCS *was* the Breeze farm team for first release of Breeze, but
FCS has served its purpose as such, and isn't going to receive R&D any
longer, which would mean that very shortly, if not already:
1a. FCS is low-rent Breeze.
2a. FCS developers are irrelevant to Breeze.
Of course I'd like to think not. As I say, I'm very proud of what we've
accomplished in FCS and think it meets our people's needs very well.
Comments?
best to all,
Paul Bernhardt
Multimedia Producer
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
University of Minnesota
1300 South Second Street, Suite 300
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454
612 624-8028
612 624-0315 fax
http://epilinux.epi.umn.edu/fcs/class/demo.html
P.S.: I love Philip's cattle auction.
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> From: Bill Sanders <wdsanders@(protected)>
> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 04 19:11:03 -0500
> To: flashcomm <flashcomm@(protected)>
> Subject: Re: [FlashComm] New Breeze Features
>
> Maybe we'll be lucky. If Breeze is for the high-end market, it's
> possible for FCS to drop in price for the lower end consumer. Likewise,
> if that happens, the market for FCS and our humble services would
> increase.
>
> As for screen sharing, loved it, but it never worked very well. Maybe
> someday, but it is a memory hog. Everything seemed to turn to mush when
> screen serving was extant.
>
> As for features, we can make our own. FCS didn't have a cattle auction
> in it, but Phillip created one.
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 07:55 PM, Phillip Kerman wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Hey, give me $50K, and I can (and I am sure most of you can) build
>>> something just as nice as Breeze using FCS. Between the lot of us, I
>>> bet we could do it for half that...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Well, I sort of doubt it. But, I do think for 200K you might be able
>> to do
>> something nearly the same.
>>
>> The thing is, you'll never be able to do some of the features unless
>> they
>> release the stuff for FCS. Like, for example, screen sharing is ONLY in
>> breeze. That's the part that bugs me.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Phillip
>>
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> Maybe we'll be lucky. If Breeze is for the high-end market, it's
> possible for FCS to drop in price for the lower end consumer.
> Likewise, if that happens, the market for FCS and our humble services
> would increase.
>
>
> As for screen sharing, loved it, but it never worked very well. Maybe
> someday, but it is a memory hog. Everything seemed to turn to mush
> when screen serving was extant.
>
>
> As for features, we can make our own. FCS didn't have a cattle auction
> in it, but Phillip created one.
>
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 07:55 PM, Phillip Kerman wrote:
>
>
> <excerpt><excerpt>
>
> Hey, give me $50K, and I can (and I am sure most of you can) build
>
> something just as nice as Breeze using FCS. Between the lot of us, I
>
> bet we could do it for half that...
>
>
>
> </excerpt>
>
> Well, I sort of doubt it. But, I do think for 200K you might be able
> to do
>
> something nearly the same.
>
>
> The thing is, you'll never be able to do some of the features unless
> they
>
> release the stuff for FCS. Like, for example, screen sharing is ONLY
> in
>
> breeze. That's the part that bugs me.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phillip
>
>
>
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