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To: rudedog who wrote (28552)	3/5/2000 2:01:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

Big fan of X? There's an Achilles Heel! :) I know he's a big fan of the three tier architecture. It's pretty tough to disagree with X though when it's on it's own (distributed) turf. I'd like to have an old (silent) X terminal. I imagine that it all comes back to a simplicity issue of (in this case) X over the GUI rolled into the kernel behemoth. I note though that the SunRay is designed to run both X and Citrix. That should have been a clue to invest in Citrix then when it was at $30. It was right at that time that Citrix announced a pending Solaris support. Because of M$ being M$ though, one could expect them to drop Citrix and pick up something with a more proprietary bent (for them). I guess there wasn't anything out there. In the past two years interop and the heterogeneous network has become a larger thing. In the past two years, Sun came out with Project Cascade, Java came into it's own, products like Graphon's that run X and Windows programs in a browser were born. Things march farther and farther from the Microsoft model. -JCJ