Glenn Cole wrote:

> I believe the real claim is for platform independence on the host side;
> the client side most assuredly is not.  While the parenthetical qualification
> in Wirt's post may have led the reader to infer this, I just thought it
> worthwhile to state so explicitly.
>
> FWIW.

Worth a lot to us.  We have perhaps 30% of the faculty and an unknown
percentage of our students who are Apple users.  Is it reasonable to ask
them to add softwindows (or similar) to run our qcterm based software or
does it make more sense to just go for html based solutions for their
needs?  There is also a growing number of Linux users, although these are
currently more often supplemental systems, but in the future they could
become another platform we have to allow for.  However, we could use the
qcterm approach as the evolution for our dedicated office staff users, but
does it make sense to tie them to a PC w/Windows when they are just
leaving a terminal?

I believe Wirt intends to allow others to use the terminal escape
sequences used in qcterm for the forms, buttons, and multimedia support,
so that someone else could implement them in a Mac or Linux product.

The question very much in our face here at UTC is where to direct our next
generation software development and how to evolve the current generation.
Does it make sense to aim it at qcterm or at html or Java or any of the
other client/server technologies? Can we afford to do more than one?

>
> --Glenn (probably just jealous ;)


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