Re: [9fans] fortune-worthy

[David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>]

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No the flavor of the week is a move to Windows servers with
users getting thin clients that connect to them.  I'ld rather
write something that talks their thin client protocol (if only
I can figure out what it is).

In general though, if your premise is that I always want to use
windows and sometimes plan 9, it is an argument for a stronger
drawterm.  Mine is that I want to live on plan9 and sometimes
use windows.  I'ld rather the inverse of drawterm.  Vnc is
a step in the right direction, though the windows server for
it sucks.

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From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fortune-worthy
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:57:56 -0800
Message-ID: <577fd0c726f326714323074c32cead74@centurytel.net>

>> (Hard to believe that the birthplace of Unix will be forced by management
>> to use Windows!)
>
> Research won't be forced to live on it.  However we already are forced to
> use it to communicate with those who don't really care what the solution
> is, which is most of the company.  Also, if we want to solve peoples'
> problems within the company, we have to do it in their context even if
> our initial experiments are on Plan 9.

Isn't this an argument for stronger drawterm effort (or something
more ambitious)?

BTW, I'm assuming this is referring to Windows for desktop environments
and not for running servers. right?