Jim Milles writes:
> CD-ROMs in this environment are relatively inaccessible, because
> only one person at a time can use only one database at a time;
> and while that database is in use, the others cannot be used.
>
> Does this seem like an accurate assessment of the situation? In
> other words, is this yet another reason to install a LAN?
>
It is an accurate assessment of the situation, but be aware that CD
drives on a LAN still present accessibility problems. Besides the
technical problems of how many users on the LAN a single CD drive or
"jukebox" drive will support at one time, there is the fact that some
CD vendors limit the amount of users in their site licenses. For
example, so that their CD products do not compete with Westlaw, West
limits the number of simultaneous users on the CD versions of their
reporters to two.
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