Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:26:33 -0500 From: Edwin Culp <eculp@ver1.telmex.net.mx> To: Dan Benjamin <dpb@mail.hqs.crc.com> Cc: Stefanos Kiakas <stefanos@ringworld.uniscape.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: salesman is thinking..... Message-ID: <35390C79.13956D1B@ver1.telmex.net.mx> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980418160409.12103A-100000@mail.hqs.crc.com>
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Time to put on my flame proof suit. I can't wait any more. What is wrong with comming up with a vga xwindows and a simple mozilla as a configuration front end for configuration. This is the front end that more than maybe 80 Million people are using. Doesn't this tell us something? How many people are using Tcl/Tk or any other option? Thanks ed Dan Benjamin wrote: > > Stefanos Kiakas writes: > > > I know! It is not difficult to use the CLI, but it does not matter to > > them and they don't care, *they want a GUI*. > > This is very often the case in my experiences as well, and has, in some > cases, been the reason a company might want NT in the first place (let's > not go there). > > > No let's not go with Tcl/Tk, how many versions are there? Let's go with > > a WWW interface and a Java or GNUstep interface. The WWW interface will allow > > the sysadmin to modify the server parameters without being at the console and > > can use any OS he pleases Win98/MacOS/OS2/etc. The same could be said for Java. > > This is an excellent point - and I know that from my standpoint, access to > the server from anywhere on a floor or in a building (the way I depend on > telnet) would be a great selling point. > > -Dan B. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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