Mark Carter wrote:
Yet another brilliant Microsoft marketing concept: "Shit, these bloody firewalls are getting in the way of our new half-baked ideas for application architectures to replace all that funky not-invented-here open source stuff we can't charge money for. Let's design something that completely screws up existing firewall strategies, then we can charge people extra to firewall the new stuff after we've hooked them all on yet another inferior execution of existing ideas".Paul Rubin wrote:
Mark Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Supposing I decide to write a server-side application using something like corba or pyro.
Usually you wouldn't run a public corba or pyro service over the internet. You'd use something like XMLRPC over HTTP port 80 partly for the precise purpose of not getting blocked by firewalls.
Although, when you think about it, it kinda defeats the purposes of firewalls. Not that I'm criticising you personally, you understand.
Also, is there a good tool for writing database UIs?
Yes, quite a few.
Ah yes, but is there really? For example, I did a search of the TOC of GTK+ Reference Manual:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/index.html
for the word "data", and there's apparently no widget which is explicitly tied to databases. So in GTKs case, for instance, it looks like one has to roll one's own solution, rather than just using one out of the box.
There isn't, IMHO, anything with the polish of (say) Microsoft Access, or even Microsoft SQL Server's less brilliant interfaces. Some things Microsoft *can* do well, it's a shame they didn't just stick to the knitting.
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