“We don’t want management GUIs to run on servers – that’s a bad thing.”

Yes, Finally, thank-you Jeffrey for admitting this.

If only you had realised this years ago, I might not be battling Microsoft SQL Server 2000 using RDP over a 31.2kbps PSTN modem link yesterday and this morning.  I might’ve instead been using a mysqldump-like tool over something akin to SSH, which would have been very welcome yesterday and today.