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Date: Mon,  6 Oct 2003 21:39:44 -0600
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If you're pitching Plan 9 in any environment, here's a good quote that
most of 9fans already know, and others instinctively feel:

	So what should we look out for in IT fashion?  The biggest
	fashion killer is the ratio of complexity to functionality, or
	simply Value-Add.  The problem with EJB was that you had to
	put so much effort in to get so little out.  It brought back
	the 'knives and daggers' that Java promised to remove.  The
	latest EJB spec has promised to hide the complexity, but in
	reality it's too late; IT vendors don=E2=80=99t often get a second
	bite at the apple (Apple, ironically, being the exception).

Plan 9 beats _almost_ everything (exception being possibly inferno ;)
when it comes to the Functionality/Complexity ratio...

Whole article (somewhat curmudgeonly):

	http://www.softwarereality.com/soapbox/softwarefashion.jsp

Ten years too late: Andrey