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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:45:04 +0100

Steve Hunt wrote:
> 
> Could the JDM become the common platform ?
> why not use that as the DM for NT ?

and Chip Watson responded with his usual enthusiasm!

The problem I see with JDM at the moment is that (I believe) it relies
on a CDEV gateway running on the www-server.  This will be fine for some
sites, but additional complexity and slowness for others.  

Bearing in mind Chip's comments on the speed of Java JDM might become a
resonable standard DM for use with NT, but I'd want to be able to
connect to IOCs directly using Channel Access, without having to set up
a WWW-server *and* a CDEV gateway.  If the collaboration wants a
standard Display Manager under NT it's going to have to support Channel
Access directly IMHO or someone will write a program that does.

-- Andrew
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