Re: registries and lotteries

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Joseph,

  Please read below your comments.

Joseph J. Kim wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> didn't think this message was worth the b/w for the iahc list ...
> 
> On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Jeff Williams wrote:
> 

> >   I don't know that what you say here is necessarly correct or entirely
> > in agreement with Chris here.  Why does it have to be more difficult to
> > manage 100K than it is ten.  If the rules are clear, that should not be and
> > issue of great concern.
> 
> I'm no database expert so maybe you can enlighten me.  I am not sure how the
> shared registry would work but suspect that a large number of registries may
> cause problems depending on how the registry was implemented.  What if there
> is some type of repository locking mechanism as in many software RCS systems
> like CVS? If so clearly a large number of registries even on the scale of
> several hundreds could make the system unmanageable.  However, if there is a
> system, as it seems there may be by your statements above, that scales to
> 100's of thousands than I am definitely in partial agreement with you.

  Try looking at Oracles Developer/2000 platform for a start.  Also
Sybases
Internet database platform or Informix.  We manage several hundred now 
databases now ourselves with several diffrent database systems.  Using 
Oracles Database Gateway facilities ans some glue, this should not be a
huge
problem. 
> 
> Partial because I would also like to see some kind of market protection for
> companies in developing countries.  As far as the US market is concerned I
> would agree that a larger number of participating companies serves the
> consumer.

  Thanks for that vote of confidance.  This is a Consumer/commerce
driven
world, and we all need to face that reality!

Regards,

> 
> -jjk

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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