New Message: Licence Renewal & the Future

[Steve Hooker]

I love Manila. But I haven't renewed my license for many, many years, 
there hasn't been anything that I've considered to be worth upgrading 
to. I've been customising and customising. I'm sticking with Manila, but 
can't ever see me giving any more money to UserLand. There's nothing 
worth buying (at present) though I'm always hopeful.

My two worries are concerned with the future.

The size of my Manila discussion groups. I had one with 147,000 messages 
and it was too much. Too much time to save and do other operations on. I 
think I'll be able to think of a work around on this.

The dual and quad and even 100 processors that are now being shipped and 
talked about. Currently, I'm running on one processor, and looking to 
upgrade the machine soon. It's my understanding that the kernel can only 
run in one processor. Indeed, I've seen Frontier on a dual, and it does 
only run on one processor. I guess this will hit all users, not just 
Manila. I can't think of a work around for this. Perhaps, running 
several instances of Frontier? Could this work?

Steve Hooker
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http://www.walsallschools.org/
 

Jack Foster Mancilla wrote:
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> Hello,
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> For quite a while I have also been looking for a way out of Manila 
> because it does seem a cul-de-sac, abandoned to past tense.
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> Being a single person, maintaining a couple manila servers part time, 
> I find it difficult to commit much time to developing my own code on 
> the open source Frontier. ... And without a migration path to the open 
> source, I find it an extremely difficult path to follow.
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> There are other concerns as well. ... How long will the open source 
> Frontier function on my always newer machines?
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> I am concerned, and looking for a future direction.
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> Jack
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> On Mar 21, 2008, at 5:00 PM, David Gewirtz wrote:
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> Jack Foster Mancilla
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> Tomorrow is coming - and by that I mean only. ...
> The future is out there in front of us, waiting for our arrival.
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