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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent. So now we will have DHIS 2.0.2 Live edition, including with
(some) maps.
Knut

2009/9/6 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> Agree, sounds cool.
>
>
>
>>
>> +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
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>
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>>>>> >> --
>>>>> >> Cheers,
>>>>> >> Knut Staring
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > --
>>>>> > Cheers,
>>>>> > Knut Staring
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Cheers,
Knut Staring