Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!midway!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel Message-ID: Date: 3 Jul 90 10:30:26 GMT References: <9007021559.AA00522@lance> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 29 In-reply-to: jimf@SABER.COM's message of 2 Jul 90 15:59:23 GMT In article <9007021559.AA00522@lance> jimf@SABER.COM writes: HP/Apollo and DEC form quite a large chunk, I daresay larger than Sun. Nor would I count IBM out (regardless of my personal opinions towards the company). From my standpoint, there is one major player -- Sun -- pushing Open Look. Every other major player is pushing Motif. McNealy made an interesting point at a recent talk. First of all, the HP/Apollo and DEC "chunk" includes non-workstation sales, which you must factor out when comparing market share. Second, each has several binary formats that must be supported. HP/Apollo have at least four different machine architectures/formats. DEC has two. What percentage of the marketplace is any ONE of those? (A side question - Will DecWindows and NewWave be phased out when they ship Motif?) Scott McNealy counters that you can reach 33% of the market share with one binary for a Sparc. He also claims there will be 1 million Sparc or Sparc-compatibles sold in one year's time. Software vendors "go where the money is". I don't think anyone can say that the war is won until we see third party vendors making millions of $$ shipping X windows-based software. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett