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[Pierre Sahores]

xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just wondering whether the efforts are justified...
> 
> How many of you would like me to finish:
> a) the enhanced script editor (incl. variable browser) I've made?
> b) complete Control Browser (with all properties available for editing 
> in any object)
> c) both a and b
> d) you prefer the editor in MC/RR
> 
> Survey 2
> Assuming these tools work seemesly with (at least) MC
> a) it should be freeware (no support guarantee, infrequent updates)
> b) it should be shareware (some support for licensees, updates once in a 
> while)
> c) it should be commercial (support + regular updates)
> 
> Thanks very much for your answers.
> 
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Xavier,

The IDEs provided to us by the RR/MC team one side, by you second side, 
are not, for me, the most important parts of what i expect from our, 
even, greatfull, development tool of choice ;-/

In the way i'm using RR/MC to develop (80% of three-part networked apps, 
20 of statistics reports engines), the power i need comes from what is 
available inside Transcript/Metatalk, not how the IDE will help me to 
code the handlers. In other words, when my coding is up, it's always, in 
the standards RR/MC IDEs, enough power to let me build the end-users GUI 
needed to control the apps and the ways they are running and/or 
reporting calculations results.

Beside what ('1), i know you did a very great job to provide us the 
Xavier's MC GUI and i'm respectfully of that but i hope you can 
understand friendly my position.

Beside what ('2) and because i don't have time to build them myself, i'm 
looking for two unavailable tools, to be build from ground in 
Transcript/Metatalk... and i would pay lots (aka US $ 500, each) to have 
them available for a professional-grade use. The first tool i need is an 
app dedicated to build, from a RR/MC front-end app, great *NIX 
Firewalls, including multiple boxes solutions (IPTables, DMZ and 
such...). The second app i would pay for, if it could be done available 
: a Nessus/Saint clone, able to let me scan and control all the 
components of my networked processes, including "over IP" datas serving 
and corporate LAN management. Because the *NIX security management is 
still far from beeing a piece of cake, i believe it could be a 
interesting market for such kind of RR/MC apps.

Hope this help.

-- 
Kind Regards, Pierre Sahores

Inspection académique de Seine-Saint-Denis
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