At 12:36 AM 9/16/2000 -0400, Mark Wonsil wrote:

>Will Telnet scale for thousands of users on a system at once?  Would the
>license model have to change or would one have to buy an unlimited-user
>license to do large Internet work?  Can you get around the firewall issue
>with Telnet?  Would QCTerm eliminate the need for web pages or do you still
>need them?  Does QCTerm become the standard for doing maintenance and web
>pages for read only interactions?  Could you get enough folks to download it
>or would you want the "QCTerm Markup Language", QCML (a FLA BTW),
>implemented in browsers and other terminal emulators.  Will QCTerm be
>available for Linux and/or Mac?  Would it be useful if QCTerm could display
>multiple resources on the same screen - not graphics and such, but multiple
>connections?  (For example, connect to the MFG server and the Order Entry
>computer and display info about a part's orders and supply)  Just some
>thoughts.  I would be curious what others think.

I see QCTerm being initially deployed largely for intranet - inside the
firewall or secure corporate WAN - apps.  I talked to a lot of people last
week who were developing web apps for internal use.  QCTerm greatly
simplifies developing these types of apps.

QCTerm is browser-launchable as a helper app.  I don't know how much of an
issue that will turn out to be when you go out to the public
web.  Certainly a lot of people, especially corporate types, have several
issues with installing yet another program on their PCs.   On the other
hand, hardly anyone blinks an eye at having to use Acrobat reader, or
Windows Media Player, or Real Player to do things.

During Wirt's talk on Thursday, someone asked him if it ran on the Mac.  He
replied that it doesn't, and the questioner shot back: "And you are still
friends with Alfredo?".  That got one of the biggest laughs of the session.