[ome-users] Why is the original image data

[Ian Dobbie]

"Wood, Mike" <mwood at api.com> writes:

[snip]

> We see several advantages in using the OME paradigm but companies

> require time to transition over. I understand your concern over the

> duplication of potentially very large data sets in the repository. I

> personally would rather have seen OME implement the ability to extract

> pixels from the original data that was sent to it instead of always

> converting it to a common form. I see how it simplifies the design and

> implementation but it comes at a cost. Will the cost be worth it...? I

> think this one issue may be a deciding issue for some in their

> acceptance of OME.


The one redeeming feature of this is that data storage is getting
cheaper, and larger all the time. We recently bought a server with
2TB for a few thousand euro. I remember the first really big disk a
bought, it was 80MB and cost about the same as this new server.

Ian