RE: I hate OpsConsole!

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim, et al...

I'm hearing of a hardware console simular to what you're seeing on the
pSeries boxes now that will be coming shortly to a AS/400 near you....


Don in DC

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On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jim Damato wrote:

> >  Marty:
> >Yes, I hate all that cutesy GUI crap too,
> >when it gets in the way of doing my job.
> >However, I also see the demise of this
> >platform if we don't admit that that cutesy
> >crap sells and shed the green-screen image.
>
>
> I dunno.  There are a lot of Unix admins out there who live and die by the
> telnet console.  They too snub the often cumbersome and unreliable
> (proprietary) graphical admin clients for the respective (proprietary) Unix
> OS's.
>
> I think the demise of the platform would be due more to the application
> presentation side.  Of course there are a lot of folks out there who don't
> know the difference.
>
> -Jim
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