Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!albanycs!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 17:05:01 GMT References: <9007031518.AA03015@stc06.CTD.ORNL.GOV> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 30 In-reply-to: de5@STC06.CTD.ORNL.GOV's message of 3 Jul 90 15:18:37 GMT In article <9007031518.AA03015@stc06.CTD.ORNL.GOV> de5@STC06.CTD.ORNL.GOV (SILL D E) writes: > >Scott McNealy counters that you can reach 33% of the market share with >one binary for a Sparc. 33% of all workstations are SPARC's running OpenLook? No way. Even if 33% of all workstations *shipping* were SPARC's--which I doubt--I suspect more than a handful are running the MIT distribution or some other non-OpenLook X. Those are his numbers. My blue sky guess is 80-90% of the sparcs are running SunView. I suppose his logic is that those people will go to OpenWindows when the products they need are available. There is some sense to that, because the OpenWindows environment is very similar to SunView, and most people can convert over to it with little effort. Old Menus's and defaults are converted, the SunView programs are replaced by OpenWindows tools, etc. When someone raised the point that just because Sun has 33% of the market, not all Sun's being shipped were Sparcs. McNealy stood his ground and repeated his claim. I guess this is an extrapolation based on current and expected shipments of Sparcs and Sparc clones. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett