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- Move to more popular free software platforms
- Apache+JSP+PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Open up development process
- Publically readable CVS tree
- Public mailing list archives (with de-spammed e-mail addresses)
- Make it fast, easy and light-weight to develop new servers
Piotr Mitros has a prototype client with all of these improvements hacked in, although rather crudely. In particular, the way that the client can do math in my version is not vectorized (the equation is parsed once per datapoint, rather than once), so it is rather slow. The code for open being an alias for I=0 is not implemented.