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From: stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.COM (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel
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Date: 3 Jul 90 21:58:56 GMT
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Chuck Price (price@decwrl.dec.com) writes:

> Sun *might* have 25% of the Unix W/S marketplace today.

The last numbers I saw said Sun had 36+% of the market for the first
quarter of this calendar year, up substantially from their ~28% for
all of last year.

> The claim that OPEN LOOK is better because you can get XView free clinches
> the argument for me. You get what you pay for.

Then NeWS is better than X, isn't it?

> Software vendors *want* a common API.

I suspect they want an API that's common across all the platforms they
write for but don't care whether it's common with other software
vendors.

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Dick St.Peters, GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
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