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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Agree, sounds cool.


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> +1
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> I think that's an excellent suggestion.
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> 2009/9/5 Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
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> 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?
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>>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > --
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>>>> > Knut Staring
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