Neil Nelson wrote:

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> >[Consider ideas regarding the centralized ICI (and ICI Cental Control server)]

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> I understand this to mean aspects that would be handled at a central

> location and not at the customer's computer.  To my thinking, this area

> is critical for Harold's target market but should be minimized for the

> PC Anywhere or Laplink market.  That is, the PC Anywhere user will

> want to buy the product and then run it with as little outside require-

> ments (or `interference' from this market's viewpoint) as possible. My

> impression of these customers are that they are independent and will

> appreciate some assistance when that is required--as in the dynamic

> IP area--but would not be interested in going through what they may

> perceive as unnecessary hoops.  That is, we need to clearly define what

> kinds of things will be useful without interference for the independent

> customer that seems to be the target market of the product area.



Haha, as I said, once we've got a decentralized system, we already have

the centralized version too. This immediately means that any

modifications I make on the product to be better for a centralized

method, does not change the program's capacity to operate as a

decentralized system.



Harold's idea is, as I understand it, to be able to offer a vast set of

services from our server, thus keeping control of what is happening. The

ICI Console has the Function Server that immediately allows *anyone* to

act as such a server, but to avoid such a situation, we simply modify

*our* Function Server or Console to fix the situation with who is server

and who client and then add a option for a little database entry to the

ICI installer to direct the users who wish to be our clients to *our*

server automaticaly. 



There is absolutely no problem in this at all, I can send you a file

right now that will make your Console have a specific IP with specific

properties appear in your cluster by default; then with a 10 minute

upgrade to the Console, I can make an entry in the cluster that cannot

be baned, etc. We can suit the diffirent markets by adding more options

in our installer program.



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