🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Oct5.131632.27931@geac.com> allen@geac.com (Allen Septon) writes:


>   Our current customer base is very reluctant to jump into the new
>   technology of client/server. We plan to use MS-WINDOWS based frontends
>   and initially GUPTA for a database on the backend.
>
>   What experience have people had with reluctant customers and how have
>   you handled it.

if i werent' a CS type, i'd be scared of it, also.  i think it's a mistake
to expose the general customer to such techno jargon unless they ask for it!
for example, when was the last time NFS was sold as a client-server file
system?

for example, NFS was accepted on the merits of its functionality/capabilities,
not architecture.

*sarcasm on*

i bet this whole issue started when SUN started to claim they were the industry
leader in client-server computing.  it looks great on paper, and probably was
worth millions on wall street.  then, others jumped on the band wagon.

beyond that, the client server model is just one of many implementation details
that helps satisfiy certain functional requrements.

*sarcasm off*

00c
--
00c -- caveh@csl.sri.com
"X is not a letter, it's a sentence."