[mdlug] OT: No BSA in Linux

[Michael S. Mikowski]

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 15:58, David Favro wrote:
> Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> >  For businesses, more and more of the apps are either
> > web-based, or else are hosted on a Citrix (or
> > equivalent) server. NOT ALL - I want to make that
> > clear so there's no confusion about what I'm saying.
>
> Right, but also don't be confused about what
> "web-based" often means -- some (many?) of those
> web-based business apps utilize custom active-X
> components: they're more like a web wrapper around a
> windows app.

I definitely saw that recently at work!  We were looking 
at 2 different frameworks for business reporting, and 
both used IE with active-X excel charting components.  

Happily, this was unacceptable, as our entire mgmt team 
uses Firefox and Safari, as do perhaps 10-15% of our 
customer base.  So we switched for Flash for reports.  
Much nicer, *and* cross-platform.

-- 
Mike
www.dynaorg.com