An ISP of their own (was RE: [rescue] Being jobless)

Thu Jul 31 15:54:29 CDT 2003

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:43:10PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 04:37 PM, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:
> >>    At Digex, we ran Remedy (both server and clients) under SunOS4.  By
> >> now, though, they've probably discontinued everything but Windows
> >> support under pressure from Microsoft.
> >>
> > Well...it got worse after you left.  =)
> >
> > First we ran Clarify on Solaris 2.x (on a wacky asymmetric cluster, no 
> > less!),
> > and it sucked.
> >
> > Then, when we got in bed with WorldCom, Remedy came back, but only for
> > WorldCom boxen.  Then, engineering did something truly evil with 
> > Siebel, and
> > that's what is used now.

Wow, I checked into all the help desk systems for a company I was
working for back in 1995, and even then it was apparent that Clarify
and Remedy both sucked.

Now they have added *ActiveX* to the mix?  Great googly-moogly!

--P