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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2009/9/6
Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] DHIS 2 "lite" should be renamed
To: Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>


+1

I think that's an excellent suggestion.


2009/9/5 Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>

For some reason, perhaps due to good marketing by Microsoft or Ubuntu or due
> to my utter boredom today, I thought maybe a better name would be DHIS2Live.
> Sort of like the live ubuntu CDs that allow an easy installation?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> 2009/8/26 Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> Well, seems like the old Diet Coke vs. Coke Lite debate, coming from a
>>> resident of the home of Coca-Cola. :)
>>>
>>> Even as a rather "advanced" user of DHIS2, I have not seen DHIS2Lite
>>> (or Express) in action. It is not clear to me what the capabilities or
>>> limitations are, or why I should bother to use it. Regardless of what
>>> you are going to call it, I think some good marketing material would
>>> go a very long way.
>>
>>
>> You are quite right Jason.  Dhis lite was "announced" on this list but I
>> don't know if it has been given much promotion.  Knut's point is that it is
>> not light in the sense of reduced functionality.  It is the full dhis but
>> just packaged to run in a humble desktop setting with next to no
>> installation requirement.  Unzip and go is the aim.  It has a reduced
>> resource footprint from a more normal dhis2 install by using a bundled
>> embedded jetty app (instead of tomcat) and a bundled embedded H2 database
>> engine (instead of mysql, postgresql or what have you).
>>
>> All this makes it great for demo purposes (I am sure it will run well off
>> a stick) as well as low intensity, low spec hardware environments.  Probably
>> also particularly good for training.
>>
>> I see it is the default downloadable package on www.dhis2.com and there
>> is some explanation there as to which version to download for what.  I guess
>> all of that is courtesy of Lars.  Chief developer, web master and marketeer
>> :-)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>>
>>> With frankness,
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Knut Staring<knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > "DHIS 2 lite" is a very misleading name, as it gives people the wrong
>>> > impression that it is not the full version of DHIS. As discussed
>>> before, we
>>> > should change it to DHIS 2 Express.
>>> > Knut
>>> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hello Ignac,
>>> >> Sorry, but I don't think we've kept the installer up to date. You can
>>> find
>>> >> information here:
>>> >> http://208.76.222.114/confluence/display/DOC/Installing+DHIS+2
>>> >> Basically, you don't need an installer, rather you need to install
>>> Tomcat
>>> >> and Postgresql or Mysql.
>>> >> Knut
>>> >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Ignac Mare <ignac.mare@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Afternoon can you please provide me with a link to the original DHIS
>>> 2.0
>>> >>> installation not the lite version, the one that works with the .war
>>> file
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Thanks
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Ignac Mare
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>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Cheers,
>>> >> Knut Staring
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Cheers,
>>> > Knut Staring
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