Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!wsl.dec.com!price From: price@wsl.dec.com (Chuck Price) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel Message-ID: <1990Jul3.004745.7400@wrl.dec.com> Date: 3 Jul 90 00:47:45 GMT References: <9006291804.AA06484@flatirons.Central.Sun.COM> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Reply-To: price@decisv.enet.dec.com (Chuck Price) Organization: DEC Independent Software Vendor Group Lines: 42 Some Sun afficionado writes: > With all due respect to all the competent and committed vendors out there, > I honestly > don't believe that you can stack alot of names together and say > 'there's the marketplace'. > How much of the workstation market is DG anyway ? Or IBM for that matter ? String them all together and you get a marketplace much larger than Sun's. Sun *might* have 25% of the Unix W/S marketplace today. They are the only one not doing Motif. Digital alone, and Digital and H/P combined in particular, make for a significant market. And anyone who discounts IBM as a player is just being silly. The claim that OPEN LOOK is better because you can get XView free clinches the argument for me. You get what you pay for. I'd suggest that Motif is the hands down winner. My prediction is that it will be bundled on every major hardware manufacturer's platform by this time next year. Software vendors *want* a common API. That is the problem with OPEN LOOK. It doesn't have one. I personally don't have an issue with OPEN LOOK. As long as a S/W vendor is running on the DECstation, you'll make me happy. My personal recommendation is Motif, because I believe there is more thought and technology behind it. But I saw OPEN LOOK running on a DECstation in Sun's booth at Xhibition, and it was faster than OPEN LOOK running on their own Sun workstations. If a software vendor wants to use it on our equipment, more power to them. But I submit that there is less risk to a software vendor in using a system which has the support of the vast majority of system suppliers in the industry, versus a plethora of different implementations of a look and feel supported by the minority. -chuck