Re: [Gnumed-devel] How much does GNumed cost ?

[Jim Busser]

On 2010-01-06, at 10:49 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> So pings are ~25 ms vs ~175ms, thusly, wire delay 7x higher from Canada.

which maybe supports the idea that I posted yesterday

> If and when any vendors (support companies) in other countries would start to 
> handle GNUmed then maybe part of their contribution could be to set up a 
> public db that would be faster than what their geographically local (or even 
> worldwide citizens) would obtain from a frugal project public pb.

… in fact, the vendor (support-company-provided) clone of a public db need not 
be higher performance in terms of hardware, or bandwidth, to the existing 
public server. It appears that just the value gained in "wire time" savings 
from geographic proximity could be considerable.

-- Jim Busser