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From: uccjcm@uncecs.edu (John McLendon)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: OSF/Motif vs. NeWS vs. SUN/Open Windows vs. ?
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.033134.4139@uncecs.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 90 03:31:34 GMT
References: <15521@well.UUCP> <1504@ole.UUCP> <130335@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <130335@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> anantha%ravi@Sun.COM (Anantha Srirama) writes:
><deletion>Motif may be the next generation of vapor-
>ware.  For all practical purposes OSF is melting away just like US Memories.
>Major papers/publications/journals have been talking about this for a couple

I would like to see some of these major papers/publications specifically
addressing the issue of GUI, not SVR4 v. AIX/OSF.
Other than Sun propoganda of course.
My impression is that Motif has been generally accepted.

>of months now, the battle may be over with SVR4/OpenLook winning in the second
>round by technical knock-out.  Seriously consider the availability/support of
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>Anantha Padmanabha N. Srirama		|  USENET:  ...sun!anantha@Eng
Considering Suns financial performance over the past two quarters, I think 
it would well behoove us all to seriously consider support availability/support
issues. It might also behoove us to consider usability issues as well.
Many of my customers have a large number of PC's (doesn't everybody) running
MS Windows. When I look at a GUI, I look for three things: ease of use/training,
support for disparate platforms, and functionality. OpenLook fails
on two of three because Motif simulates PM behavior and will run on other boxes.
A significant number of my users have used MS Windows. I'm sorry anantha, 
but the only way I'll buy a Sun (and I would certainly like to!) is that Motif
is available(it is), and the hardware interfaces needed for my equipment are
available(they ain't, S-BUS is new, but we'll work around that with time).
On the other hand, I want SVR4 (probably with the multiprocessing extensions
specified by OSF), but I won't abandon Motif. The verdict is:

			SVR4 		(YES)
			Motif		(YES)
			OpenLook	(NO)
			(OSF's new OS)	(We'll see)

I don't want to start a huge flambe' so....
I will not reply, I'm going water skiing!


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