From: Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com>
This new is better is what got Wellfeet/Baynetworks in trouble. Instead of providing an ASCII interface to the command line they went menu (not terrible) or snmp commands (ARGH!). Later they dropped the menu and went full Windows GUI. Which was useless when the network as down.
Ahh...Wellfleet's "Site Manager". I'm sure in some Bostonian ivory tower, "everything is an SNMP OID and thou shalt only speak SNMP to it" sounded like a great idea. What they delivered was a steaming pile of bad design choices, wildly inconsistent behavior, poor documentation and crippling bugs (new and different in every release). To this day it's my go-to example of truly awful, how not to do it, user interfaces. I've rarely found one worse. KJ