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From: ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS down-played in OW 2.0
Message-ID: <4806@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 90 03:32:11 GMT
References: <11722@hoptoad.uucp> <1990Aug21.154152.27532@odin.corp.sgi.com> <14471@diamond.BBN.COM>
Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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In article <14471@diamond.BBN.COM>, mlandau@bbn.com (Matthew Landau) writes:
> Let's be realistic for a minute: as a vendor of worktations, Sun has 
> to ask itself what the customer base is demanding, and at the moment, 
> the customer base is demanding a good, high-performance implementation 
> of X11.  Yes, *we* all know that X pales in comparison to NeWS along 
> any dimension you care to compare...  except for the all-important 
> dimension of market popularity.  

If Sun stopped its Open Look jihad and simply adopted the Motif
look-n-feel, they would have a lot more latitude to develop new
software.  Let's not have a Motif vs. Open Look flame war -- see the
latest Unix Today! editorial on the subject.  I'm just pointing out
that if Sun weren't expending so many resources on fighting Motif,
they could develop better X11 and NeWS implementations and gain even
more market share.

-Ittai