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Subject: Re: Text v. GUI for Security Software
From: peter @ baileynm . com (Peter da Silva)
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 10:29:49 -0500 (CDT)
To: jperry @ spanning . com (Jack Perry)
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199605171441 . JAA02669 @ nad . spanning . com> from "Jack Perry" at May 17, 96 09:41:20 am

> We'd like the development of NetProbe to be customer driven. How important
> is a GUI to scanner and security tools in general as opposed to command 
> line interfaces?

*grin*

A GUI is *very* important. If it's got a GUI, and you can't run it without
the GUI, there's no way in hell I'm going to buy it for a security role.
How much more important could that be?

Now if you give it a GUI front end, that's a different matter... but it would
be best if the GUI just automates editing of config files and the like (and
the config files aren't so convoluted that the GUI is the only practical
way to edit them).



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