Provides automatic application launch, application security, license metering, and statistics functions. Requires no client software. Caching also provides increased capacity through compression. Remote or local, the process is as simple as creating an image of a CD's contents on one of the tower's hard drives. In either case, once a CD is cached, the real CD can be removed from the CD-ROM drive.
Concurrent users can access and use the contents of the cached image immediately.
The product kits come complete with hardware and software, user guide and companion CD containing remote load utility, FTP utility, online help, and Internet browser. In programming and technical environments, a CD-ROM can be used to provide access to vendor documentation. Many software vendors rely on CD-ROM as the primary means for distributing documentation. Many Libraries rely on CD-ROM networks. Legal Environments Legal environments such as law offices, law libraries, and legal research organizations would benefit from the ability to share the many legal resources published on CD-ROM, such as those published by West Group.