Re: Tcom-like functionality in Unix?

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From: Dimitri Maziuk <dima@127.0.0.1>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:29:13 +0000 (UTC)

John Sequeira sez:
> Cameron,
>
> I am guilty of muddling Unix and Windows. I have on many different
> occasions had to deploy Windows web applications that rendered reports
> in various formats, particularly MS-Office variants .doc and .xls.
> When I say "it's incredibly bad practice ...", I really meant to say
> that MS-Office desktop apps in particular are a really bad idea to
> have on Windows servers due to their notoriety as virus vectors, lack
> of stability, resource consumption etc. Also, keeping up with the
> weekly patches
> to Windows 2K/XP which require reboots is painful enough without
> adding Office patches to the routine.
>
> I don't feel this bias is nearly as applicable to the Unix side (hence
> my
> muddling). Although I have less experience there, I get the sense
> that not too many people worry about installing Mutt, AbiWord or
> Gnumeric on their centrally administered hosts, because with X that's
> more-or-less how they were meant to be run anyway.

*shrug* some do... for one thing, these things tend to come with
"DLL hell" nowadays. Whereas server's job in life is to serve
stuff and you normally want only the software that's needed for
that on your server.

Of course a workstation nowadays may well have more oomph than
a low-end server... so you might as well install your gnumeric
on a workstation and everyone else can run it over X from there.

Dima

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