In article <[log in to unmask]>,
Sletten Kenneth W <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Trying to catch up on email again...  After I said:
>
>> ...... senior manager in the US Navy have put out something
>> called "IT-21".  The way I read it .....it says that *ALL* Navy
>> desktop / *network* operating systems will be MS Windows
>> 95-98-2000 / NT based ASAP...
>
>Also note that none of this is being done in secret:  There is a huge
>(mind-numbing, actually) amount of info on public web sites about
>IT-21 that can be yours for the pointing.  Just throw "IT-21" at
>Altavista, and at last count it will find 1080 web pages.
>Anyway, IT-21 is not something that is still in the debate stage;
>I believe it's about as done a deal as anything can get in DOD IT:
>NT is it, for network operating system servers and the desktop...
>now.....  don't shoot the messenger;  the IT-21 decision was made
>10 or more steps above my grade level....    :-)

The most powerful argument against this is probably only one page long:
Bill Watterson's 'Calvin and Hobbes' cartoon in which Spaceman Spiff
finds his ship's control panel has a Windows interface, and thus goes
down ignominiously in combat with the Zorgnaks (or whatever they are),
unable to fire a single shot.

Post that somewhere and watch IT-21 unravel :-)

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