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I hereby bet Richard Threadgill that as of the 2005
Networld+Interop (or whatever equivalent general
networking event is held in the spring in Las Vegas)
all vendors of network management (management
including provisioning, monitoring, configuring,
ticket management, billing...) (network defined as
anyone who calls their equipment "network equipment")
(equipment includes hardware and software but not
stand alone services) (network management includes in
house and stand alone) will have, as their main
interface, a graphical user interface. (Main: what
they display; graphical user interface: non-command
line interface and/or anything you use a mouse to use
rather than the keyboard alone.)

So, if they all have a graphical as opposed to a command line interface, he owes me 500. If they (the vendors) have products without GUI, I owe him 500. No decision if N+I is off.