Web-Dedicated Metacard

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

I changed the thread on this because I am also following the

MC-->PostGreSQL closely in its own right...

OK, so agreed, we can use Metacard to provide content over the web.
  I am doing it already in a very small way... but let's we discuss this 
in a larger context (we got 1.7 million visitors on just three of our 
domains in 2002... those are visitors, not hits)

If one broaches the subject of putting in time to develop content for 
MC based delivery, saying

"I can get 20 times the content ready for delivery in the same time it 
would take to get 1 unit of content out via HTML."  (I just spend a 
month of my time with another team member getting one book on line as 
HTML... amazing amount of human resources required to  do such a simple 
thing.)

The answer is typically "Well, that's nice, but you are not going to 
reach as many people... how many are going to download your plug in? 
You still have to get them to go via a browser and download your 
stuff... why not just put it up in html in the first place."

So, what kinds of strategies can anyone suggest to take this beyond the 
"consensus reality" barrier?






On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 03:35 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote:

> Just as you say, Alain and we, all, are going to open "l'avenue des
> Champs-Elysees" to the web-dedicated metacard developments.
> "Because they did'nt know it was impossible,..." ;-)