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Is BibleWorks Available Online, Cloud-Resident or As a Download?
| Author: KB Admin Reference Number: AA-02701 Views: 24253 Created: 2012-08-05 19:00 Last Updated: 2017-07-11 12:05 |
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Until recently, the size of the BibleWorks program (now about 22GB, compressed) had mitigated against its being made available by download. Now that more customers have greater-bandwidth connections, BibleWorks optionally offers a downloadable product. Instructions for ordering appear here.
No matter what connection speed a user has, after the download users will want to back up their installation files. A 22GB backup poses significant requirements (DVD-Rs hold only 4GB per disc).
A thin-client (cloud) version of BibleWorks poses other challenges. Experiments so far indicate such a version would incur unacceptable performance penalties. In addition, protection of the copyrighted databases included in BibleWorks is more difficult in such a version. Because of these two challenges, BibleWorks currently assesses the cost of maintaining a separate thin-client version so significant that it would drive the overall end-user cost of BibleWorks to unacceptable levels. Should future technology advances permit a single version to be used cost-effectively in both thick- and thin-client modes, or should thin-client architecture in the future substantially supplant thick-client applications, BibleWorks will then offer a thin-client version.
Last Update: RG/July 11, 2017
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