RE: Screen cont. (from the "Peanut Gallery")

[Kevin_Saenz dell com]

We are getting off topic, M$ used html and vbscript in their office
packages isn't that what gets them in to the crap everytime someone
smart decides to create a harmful virial attack? Now your saying to
make packages us XML, it's great for DB interfaces on the web less
resource than ASP, do you really think that is a wise call?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Armstrong [mailto:jim_a technologist com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 February 2000 9:26
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: Screen cont. (from the "Peanut Gallery")
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin_Saenz dell com <Kevin_Saenz dell com>
> "windows is a good example of "if you make it easy for idiots to use
> someone will build a bigger and better idiot"."
> 
> 
> I really beg to differ, Kevin, and it just so happens that 
> phrase connotes,
> almost exactly, the attitude that Corporate IS managers (and 
> particularly
> mainframe reports analysts, remember them?) displayed when the first
> Apple ][ with VisiCalc appeared on departmental managers' desks.
> 
> I've found the end user is about as dumb, but not quite, as 
> you expect him
> to be..for instance he KNOWS when he's being patronized.
> 
> As far as the rest of it.. all a typical cubemonger really needs is a
> diskless network appliance with built in browser.  Dont need Linux for
> that.. tho might as well use it as limited windows (CE).  But 
> just try to
> put one of those on the Manager's desk!
> 
> And the user should only have to be trained on the app.. not 
> the machine
> itself.
> 
> Too many unix proponents confuse versatility and processing 
> power with ease
> of use... I used to get into endless debates with developers 
> who absolutely
> could not understand the business user interface and would 
> proudly point to
> 7 or 8 open command line windows as proof of superiority of 
> Unix... guess
> they figgered the sec'y would like to work on seven docs at 
> once.. in "vi".
> And dont even get me started on the available commercially supported X
> interfaces.. they should just pack it in and go straight to XML.
> 
> 
> Jim Armstrong
> - been around the block-  twice.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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