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Old 10-13-2010
Yes, we certainly need more information. Budget is also important, which often related to how much "risk" an organization can afford.

Without addressing the organizational (cultural), budget and risk issues, it would be wrong to recommend one technology over the other.

As a side editorial story, there was once a publicly traded company (Broadvision, as I recall) that had a web portal product based on C++. The analysts strongly criticized that company for not being more open (Java-based). The company basically tried to force their C++ developers to become Java experts because Java was the "best technology". The company rapidly when downhill to bankruptcy.

One more story.

As a consultant many years ago, I was brought into a very large government organization that was Solaris based and was told management made the decision to change the entire infrastructure to HP-UX. They had tons and tons of HP-UX servers sitting on the docks; and all the Solaris employees were told to install them. It was a total disaster. It was nearly criminal sabotage going on, because these long time dedicated Solaris employees were not just going to become HP-UX lovers and leave behind Solaris, which they loved.

Now, I'm not posting here to say if HP-UX or Solaris was better for that organization. What I am saying is that if an organization has a certain culture, destroying that culture for a different technology that is not a part of the culture will fail, and generally always goes.

So, most reports, like the one requested by the original poster, are useless, technically. In fact, they generally are both destructive and counterproductive, especially in large organizations. Yes, of course if you are a sales person from "YYY Corporation" and your competition is "ZZZ", you really don't care about culture, because you want to see ZZZ replace YYY. Or, if you are a die hard techie, you really don't care about organization and culture, because you are blinded by technology.

So, what is useful, is to first have an understand of the organizational culture. Advising without these details just puts ammunition into the hands of reckless people who will advocate a decision based on the wrong focus.

I cannot stress this strongly enough. Culture is much more important than technology, very much so. As the old saying goes:

All Politics are Local

Only foolish people make IT decisions without considering the business and social impact of their actions.
 

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term::ansi::ctrl::unix(n)					 Terminal control					 term::ansi::ctrl::unix(n)

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term::ansi::ctrl::unix - Control operations and queries SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.4 package require term::ansi::ctrl::unix ?0.1? ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::import ?ns? ?arg...? ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::columns ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::rows _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
WARNING: This package is unix-specific and depends on the availability of two unix system commands for terminal control, i.e. stty and tput, both of which have to be found in the $PATH. If any of these two commands is missing the loading of the package will fail. The package provides commands to switch the standard input of the current process between raw and cooked input modes, and to query the size of terminals, i.e. the available number of columns and lines. API
INTROSPECTION ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::import ?ns? ?arg...? This command imports some or all attribute commands into the namespace ns. This is by default the namespace ctrl. Note that this is relative namespace name, placing the imported command into a child of the current namespace. By default all commands are imported, this can howver be restricted by listing the names of the wanted commands after the namespace argument. OPERATIONS ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw This command switches the standard input of the current process to raw input mode. This means that from then on all characters typed by the user are immediately reported to the application instead of waiting in the OS buffer until the Enter/Return key is received. ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw This command switches the standard input of the current process to cooked input mode. This means that from then on all characters typed by the user are kept in OS buffers for editing until the Enter/Return key is received. ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::columns This command queries the terminal connected to the standard input for the number of columns available for display. ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::rows This command queries the terminal connected to the standard input for the number of rows (aka lines) available for display. BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category term of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation. KEYWORDS
ansi, columns, control, cooked, input mode, lines, raw, rows, terminal COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2006 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> term 0.1 term::ansi::ctrl::unix(n)
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