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From: fgreco@govt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What's what in OPEN LOOK/OpenWindows (long)
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Date: 27 Sep 90 20:35:10 GMT
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>   Besides. It is IBM PC (and clones) with MS-DOS that the customer found
>   the 'best' - and buys it, and buys it. Has this ever been a SUPERIOR
>   technology ?
>-- 
	Precisely!  It was the vast numbers of PC's and a bundled (low-tech) MS-DOS
	(practically every vendor bundled MS-DOS with each PC sold)
	that dictated the "standard" operating system.  

	That is exactly why OPEN LOOK will prevail, regardless of any 
	technical superiority/non-superiority, source code availability/non-availability,
	Xt-based/non-Xt-based matter.  The amount of Sun (actually SPARC is more
	appropriate) workstations in the commercial marketplace is growing 
	incredibly fast (in the Wall Street arena, there *is* no other workstation).
	Guess which UI is standard on those machines?   Hint: Its not Motif.


	Frank Greco
	fgreco@shearson.com

	Comments are mine, not my clients