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By: Steve Kirks (srk at mac.com)

Eric:

Thanks for responding. I recognize your name as having a long history of Manila/Frontier/Radio development and use.

In reverse order:

The G3/300 is my test machine [1] on 512Kb of bandwidth. I'll probably deploy on Windows for exactly the reason you mention: price/performance. I'm very comfortable managing Windows boxes, so it's not too scary for me. Plus, remote desktop/terminal services for management is easy and builtin.

This brings up one of my fundamental issues: remote management. Frontier/Manila seems to require a significant amount of visits to the application's interface and has no command line alternative. I lack the skills to write good UserTalk scripts to help me in that. Manila resources are wide and scattered, but when found are great. User-level stuff is great, but server admin level stuff is sparse.

Thanks again...

Steve

[1] http://trioconnect.org

This is a Manila site.. http://manila.userland.com/.