From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 18 13:08:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20126 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 13:08:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hobbes.crc.com (hobbes.crc.com [192.251.235.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA20100 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 20:07:49 GMT (envelope-from dpb@mail.hqs.crc.com) Received: from mail.hqs.crc.com(really [192.146.211.204]) by hobbes.crc.com via sendmail with esmtp id for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:07:48 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built 1997-Mar-21) Received: from localhost (dpb@localhost) by mail.hqs.crc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA12108; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:08:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dpb@mail.hqs.crc.com) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:08:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Benjamin To: Stefanos Kiakas cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: salesman is thinking..... In-Reply-To: <9804181903.AA12030@ringworld.uniscape.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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