after all the hullaballoo about the chat and ireport tool creating problem, I found the problem to be a jar file in the lib folder, which on removal solved the problem. so, Mediclik application is again running beautifully on my Mac. The only thing that doesn't work is the calendar widget. I am using safari and firefox, but can't get it to work. I have seen it work on IE on XP so I know it works. I did a google on it, but the results were disheartening with claims that calendar widget doesn't work on any of the browser on Mac. pathetic state of affairs, if true :-)
so, we are onto the last lap here. Mediclik is almost stable with all the features that we had decided. right now look and feel are being changed and after that comes the hardest bit of it. you see being a startup, Chiasma solutions is very afraid that once someone buys a CD, he/she may hand it over to the freewheelers who will use it but won't pay us. Sort of like software pirates at work !!!!
biggest challenge is how to stop them. the approach we have taken is to make the user register with us online. this will be a one time operation, but has to be done so that we can authenticate it with the side effect that we will also be able to allow only one installation from one CD by uniquely identifying the CD and disabling any other installation from that CD. Now the fact is that the target audience, the small clinics, may not have internet connection. This was my biggest concern but it was decided that the salespersons will have some data card with them that they will use to connect to Internet and help the buyer to authenticate their software version. This to me is a highly flawed strategy which is going to cause umpteen amount of trouble. Imagine a salesman walking some medical clinic guy through the steps needed. What if the data card does not work? What if the salesman is unable to do what he is supposed to do? We have to arrange for their traninings etc. But as of now, this approach has been decided and if it sucks then we got to live with it :-(
now the next part of agenda - install IE8 so that i can run the calendar widget and work on my gaming experience :-)
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