On 22 Jan 2016 at 18:30, MikeFry wrote: > On 22 Jan 2016 5:40 PM, Ed Ladendorf wrote: > > > Thank you once again. It's possible that I don't really understand how the > > cloud could work (or not) with Legacy. Is it not possible to have the > > program itself in the cloud, and it could sync with the Windows version of > > Legacy? If it is possible, that seems like it would be a great thing for a > > lot of people. Sorry if I did not understand that possibility correctly. > > Totally different business model. What you're asking would entail running > Legacy Family Tree as a Web application rather than as a Desktop application. > You wouldn't then purchase the software, but simply pay a monthly subscription > to use it. In all probability, keeping the data on your PC would incur massive > costs as the data flows back and forth. It then becomes cheaper to keep the > data on the website and you've lost the ultimate ownership of it. Just like > using Ancestry's software to maintain a tree on their website.
I don't understand about the "business model", but it seems that it would be a highly unsatisfactory method of storing family history date, as it would require you to have Internet access at all times. I quite often take my laptop computer to do research in libraries and archives where there is no Internet access, and while I do print out my Legacy To-Do list beforehand I also often want to look up people and their relationships to check where the new material fits in. Using cloud servers for backup or transfer is fine, but it seems crazy to want to do everything there. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: [email protected] Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
