Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hplabsz!mayer From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: ???? Which UIMS to use ???? Summary: looks like "marketing" has been redefining language again.... Message-ID: <6251@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Date: 22 Nov 90 02:04:09 GMT References: <1990Nov20.213313.15494@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels Mayer) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Software & Systems Lab, Palo Alto, CA. Lines: 19 Expires: Sender: Followup-To: In article <1990Nov20.213313.15494@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> ssa@eceugs.ece.ncsu.edu (S Alavi) writes: > Does anyone have any experience using any of the following > UIMS products? ^^^^ I cannot comment on any of the products you mentioned, but I do have one thing to say: Most of the products you mention are not UIMS's (user interface managemnt systems). With the exception of HP/Apollo's OpenDialog, most are just interactive "User Interface Development Tools" or "direct manipulation builders." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Niels Mayer -- hplabs!mayer -- mayer@hplabs.hp.com Human-Computer Interaction Department Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, CA. *