Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool2.mu.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!lanl!beta.lanl.gov!dwf From: dwf@acl.lanl.gov (Dave Forslund) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Sun != Open Archtecture Message-ID: Date: 13 Jan 91 03:07:19 GMT Sender: news@lanl.gov Reply-To: dwf@acl.lanl.gov Organization: Advanced Computing Lab, LANL, NM Lines: 28 In-reply-to: jgk@osc.COM's message of 11 Jan 91 23:37:06 GMT In article <4139@osc.COM> jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane) writes: Sun is behaving like a spoiled brat in this case. Part of the problem is that they missed the boat and spent a lot of time on NeWS and SunWindows, which people didn't really want it. Maybe they should learn that just because you have more engineers doesn't make people want your product. You can argue the technical merits X vs. NeWS vs. SunView, but the main point is that Sun got shut multiple times. Because of all this, they have decided to be perverse and not give its customers what they want. Sun doesn't always give its customers what they want, but, from my experience, they do a better job than most of the other vendors. We have almost no one around here is asking for Motif, e.g., or for that matter, OSF/1. SVR4 is favored by a lot of vendors and it comes with Open Look, which is the most similar to SunView where the largest chunk of the workstation market place is coming from. Their decisions seem pretty logical to me. -- David Forslund Advanced Computing Laboratory MS B287 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 Voice:(505) 665-1907 FAX: (505) 665-4939 EMAIL: dwf@lanl.gov