James Shanks wrote:
>
> Possible? Nothing is impossible if you are willing to start over and
> re-design
> code from the ground up. I didn't say it couldn't be done; I said it probably
> wouldn't. The Tivoli desktop, which isn't nearly as sophisticated as the
> NetView desktop, was designed differently from the get-go. The Tivoli desktop
> is just a front- end for the oserv running on that box. It is the oserv on
> the
> box with the desktop which talks to the other oserv on the server. But the
> NetView client has no daemon process to do what the oserv does. It is just a
> desktop and it must therefore be of the same type as the server.
My real intent in posting was not to focus on the GUI, but to get some
recon on what V6 is going to be.
So far, all I know is all of the development is now at Cambridge, MA.
So that smells to me like we'll get some convergence.
None the less, HP OpenView does have the ability to do this. So there's
a factor that could drive the decision.
> So what did I say? I said I don't think they are going to re-design the
> NetView
> client-server. Instead I think what they will do is improve the web interface
> so you won't need an Xclient or a Windows client. That's the industry
> direction
> after all, not just NetView's.
>
I'm not going to comment on this existing Web interface. Regardless,
the GUI performance would still be an issue (and probably not acceptable
with Web/Java/JavaScript) without some significant changes.
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