CompuServe Messages

Dana: Frankfurt is still alive, but struggling to stay viable. There are some corporate forces within the group who apparently have vested interests in keeping the situation in some chaos for a while – the company, which I suppose must remain nameless – has become one of the most cynical, insidious forces in our business, and seem dedicated to halting all progress until they can figure out how to recoup the dollars lost on other misadventures. It's my further understanding that there is nothing in the Photo-CD approach that is fatal to Frankfurt. On the contrary, Kodak has tried to stay in that mainstream, doing only what was necessary to get their product on the market. In my view, there remain two major problems to resolve. One involves the inter-session gap which is apparently on the order of 30MB currently. The other is that each session currently appears as a separate partition, so it is difficult to move smoothly from data in session 1 to data in session 2. The resolution of these issues for non Photo-CD applications (eg., corporate archiving in CD-R) is critical, but first the group must get free of its own mini-hostage crisis. Best – Rich Bowers