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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel
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Date: 6 Jul 90 04:13:56 GMT
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Reply-To: mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels Mayer)
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In article <2142@east.East.Sun.COM> iarrobin@wookie.Central.Sun.COM (Mike Iarrobino - Systems Engineer) writes:
>In article <9007021559.AA00522@lance> jimf@SABER.COM writes:
>>|How much of the workstation market is DG anyway ?  Or IBM for that matter ?
>>
>>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).
>
>Hmmm, let's look at some real numbers.
>
>The following is from Computer Reseller News, June 25th, 1990, p. 14:

>"WORLDWIDE RISC WORKSTATION/SERVER MARKET BY MICROPROCESSOR, VENDOR"
            ^^^^
> These figures clearly show Sun Microsystems as the leading vendor of
> RISC workstations.

Given the background of the discussion (workstation market share), you've
just posted a completely useless and misleading comparison. We're not
talking about market share of RISC workstations, we're talking about market
share of workstations, and in particular, the total number of workstations
running Motif versus Open Kook. It doesn't matter diddly squat whether the
workstation is using a SPARC, HP's PA-RISC, MIPS, 68xxx, 88xxx, i386, i486,
etc. processor.

Nice try...

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PS: I had a real good time at the Xhibition tradeshow watching Sun
marketing droids burst their cranial bloodvessels everytime they saw an
ISV's sparcstation running a Motif application. 

			"You gots to chill" -- EPMD.

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	    Niels Mayer -- hplabs!mayer -- mayer@hplabs.hp.com
		  Human-Computer Interaction Department
		       Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
			      Palo Alto, CA.
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