>>One interesting presentation claimed that Hyper-G is an acceptable
>>candidate for running a large ejournal server, while the web is not. Two
>>reasons are put forward:
>I would like to be a trifle more precise. We were claiming that a
>conventional server such as "httpd" from NCSA or Netsite
>did not scale correctly. Our understanding is that most servers of this
>type become unstable much beyond around 300,000 or so documents.
>Hyper-G is claimed to have been implemented with around 2 million
>documents, and may be extensible to around 6 million or more.
>Thus the reference to "web" above is not quite precise in our context
Is it possible to get more information about Hyper-G?
Thanks
Nicola Clare
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