Re: what was the single mgmt decision made in mid-1990s. period

From: Evan Harris"
The solution should be delivered *with* the box. The "i" stands for
integration, right ?

That's my understanding. But the nature of integration has changed, significantly. It used to mean very tight integration under a native virtual machine. Now it means server consolidation and homogenization. The server now supports 3-4 operating systems, a native virtual machine, a unix virtual machine (PASE), a java virtual machine. Even Net.Data and PHP provide something of a virtual machine for their respective scripting languages.

I think the lack of an integrated simple GUI ... is just another nail
in the coffin ...

Well, maybe there's a little bit of Steve Richter in all of us. I seem to recall an old prophecy about the US Constitution hanging by a thread, but revived by saints. Maybe the native virtual machine will hang by a thread but be revived by RPG programmers <smile>