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From: bochner@lange.harvard.EDU (Harry Bochner)
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Subject: Re: Open Windows 2.0 released (Sun press release)
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Date: 13 Aug 90 20:38:58 GMT
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In article <1990Aug2.025858.14871@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>,
ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) writes:
 > On another note, the press release mentions a new version of XView
that makes
 > it easy to convert current SunView stuff to X11.  How much easier ? 
I fiddled
 > with XView a month or so ago, and tried to convert mush to use XView.  It
 > appeared to me that you would have to have about 5 years of
experience in BOTH
 > X11 and SunView to have a hope of converting anything.

I haven't tried it, but I'm rather suspicious about the robustness of XView,
on the following basis. Sun has put a lot of work into their Desk Suite
programs,
SunWrite, SunDraw, etc. So far these programs are available _only_ in SunView
versions. The fact that they haven't released X versions seems to mean that:

a) they feel there is some marketing advantage to having only SunView versions
   (since it means that users have to be on Suns, as opposed to
X-terminals, for
    instance). This would contradict the stated strategy of supporting X.
        or
b) converting from SunView to X is trickier than they'd like us to think, even
   using XView.
        or
c) XView itself just doesn't work very well yet.

This is just speculation: anyone have any information?

Harry Bochner
bochner@endor.harvard.edu