The technical path is a bit more difficult. We have fine people in our Systems Department but the products themselves are sometimes not so fine. Some appear to be incompatible with one another. Think of this network as an electronic United Nations. Probably the most difficult path is the contractual one.
Vendors offer different pricing structures.
Some charge a subscrip tion fee based upon the number of simultaneous users. Now that we can network these databases we hope to be able to add more simultaneous users to our contracts. So far we have only been discussing CDs. Into this mix we also need to throw those online databases for which we have subscriptions. Others are available via Web or telnet access or both.