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Hi Tom I'm not sure I can agree with you 100% in your statement here :)One of the reasons a GUI (badly designed or otherwise) is perceived as useful in the workplace is that most employees can these days be counted on to be able to work a browser or Windows at the mechanical level. Almost any person off the street will be familiar with these technologies whereas the green screen is more than likely going to be a mystery to them, and this becomes truer every day.
With the high personnel turnover that is seen in many environments employing casual or other types of staff, having a low training requirement for your everyday applications is demonstrably a money saver.
The GUI vs. green screen argument - at least in my mind - is as much about having a lowest common denominator approach to data access and input as it is about efficiency.
Regards Evan Harris
I am not sure if I agree with this or not. Clearly, re-engineering applications solely to convert to GUI interfaces is a waste of time and money, unless the UI improvements improve the application. However, if it is being done to position the application for future improvements, it may be a good investment. Also, I don't think that there is a whole lot of additional cost for the vehicles for a modern UI. Now Websphere is expensive, but there are alternatives. CGIDEV2 is free, the incremental cost of serving .NET is pretty small, and Tomcat is free. > I personally don't believe that there is a majority of folks out there > developing to good, modern UI principles. For every decent, > productivity-improving GUI app (in my opinion) there has got to be a > dozen or so mediocre collections of forms and programs developed by > "programmers" without much true application design education or > experience, and developed without the benefit of business analysis. Agreed, but irrelevant. First, remember that developers have to walk before they can run. Second, there are as many crappy green screen apps as there are crappy GUI apps. Writing off GUI development because many of the apps suck is muddied thinking. Take care. -- Tom Jedrzejewicz tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx
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