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Re: I hate OpsConsole!

On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:42:57PM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> I've long suspected that IBM's refusal to make certain network-related
> functions accessible from the command line or from anything
> terminal-based is really just a way to violently shove one more piece of
> bloatware, i.e., Client Access (which is actually two pieces of
> bloatware: both the client and the server are unnecessarily bulky) down
> the throats of their users. Come to think of it, three pieces, unless
> OpsConsole/OpsNav are available for DOS, Macintosh, or Linux.

No, they're not. Therefore, you must have at least one Windows box. (I
haven't tried them under WINE, but I suspect they do not work.)

I truly don't understand why they place such a requirement on top of such a
notoriously brittle platform as Windows. As an old mainframe systems
programmer, I'm appalled at the master console being anything but a dumb
green screen, at least as an option.

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