Explorer isn't that bad, and now that more and more sys admins are only interested in administering things with GUI tools its the way things are going to be for the foreseeable future. I'd recommend getting used to it.
Hmm, they are going to get a hard time doing some real sys admin stuff on platforms like HP/UX, AIX and even Linux.
Did you ever try using Progress explorer over a firewall?
I use it for testing purposes on windows, beside that, Progress Explorer doesn't give me the flexibility that scripting does give to me....
(Like in this post, starting a secondary broker when the database is already started..).
Even worse if you don't use windows, you still have to have a Windows machine to get the Progress Explorer...
Casper.