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From: fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What's what in OPEN LOOK/OpenWindows (long and flamey)
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Date: 16 Oct 90 15:20:49 GMT
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> 
> >> 	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.
> 
> >	What this shows is that different industries are adapting different
> >	toolkits. At the last Society of Exploration Geophysicists show,
> 
> Also, at Wall Street's most popular financial/commercial show, Motif trounced
> Open Look by a 10 to 1 margin!

	Yeah, I agree.

	There were many more people saying Motif is inferior to OPEN LOOK...;-)

	Seriously, I get my data by working in the Wall Street Financial sector for 
	the past 5 years.  I've only seen *2* DEC Unix workstations in that
	time; plenty of VMS machines but only *2* DEC workstations running Unix
	(no one runs VMS on a real workstation right Chris?).  And those DEC 
	workstations were evaluation machines.  Heck, I've seen more IBM RIOS 
	machines than DEC boxes.  Of course, *these* machines were running Motif.
	I've even seen a few Sun's and Solbournes running Motif.  But overwhelmingly,
	the standard GUI is OPEN LOOK.  Its not just opinion, but observation.

	Geesus, what financial/commercial show were you at Chris?  
	I have several press releases (ie, not personal opinion from yours truly
	but facts from the software vendors) from "Wall Street's most popular 
	financial/commercial show" (ugh...gimme a break) that indicate that Open Look,
	not Motif, is the GUI of choice for the financial sector.  It might
	not be the choice for extremely PC-minded institutions (I don't
	mean that pejoratively), but OPEN LOOK seems to be growing faster
	than its competitor in the financial arena.


	Being in DEC marketing support, you wouldn't be biased would you ? ;->>


> I will look again at the October 31 UNIX EXPO here in New York City...another
> big show.

	Be There and Be Square...;-)

	BTW, did you see the article in today's *Digital Review* regarding multimedia
	in the 90's?  The photo was that of X/NeWS and OPEN LOOK.  There also
	was a picture of an OPEN LOOK screen on the inside cover too.

> 
> Christopher Graham          
> Digital Equipment Corp            
> New York City



	Frank G.

	[Put your favorite standard opinion disclaimer here]