Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!autodesk!glang From: glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: X11 for the NeXTstation Message-ID: <2014@autodesk.COM> Date: 14 Jan 91 01:17:33 GMT References: <1991Jan10.020437.14465@cs.mcgill.ca> <17136@csli.Stanford.EDU> <3573@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1117@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA Lines: 25 In-reply-to: melling@cs.psu.edu's message of 12 Jan 91 07:03:05 GMT All of these postings wherein people are gnashing their teeth over the lack of X support on the NeXT are really strange to me. If there's a market for this, and if NeXT is dropping the ball, then put your money where your mouth is and do it yourself and make all of the money you think the vendor of such a product will make. However, if you ask yourself whether NeXT users would rather see a good presentation building package, good illlustration tools, a great outliner, spreadsheets, dBASE development environments and so on before they would want an X server (forget the client - noone will write apps for it), you'll probably decide what almost everybody has decided - it's not worth the effort. Has the lack of a decent X server for DOS hurt DOS? How huge an impact will the 2 X servers available have on the Exploding MSWindows market? No mindshare at all. A few Unix sites will be greatful and the 2 companies will make a little money, but I guarantee you that Software Ventures will make more money off of MicrophoneII for MSWindows and the NeXT than you'll ever make on a good X Windows server for the NeXT or Windows. -g -- Gary T. Lang (415)332-2344 x2702 Autodesk, Inc. Sausalito, CA. MCI: 370-0730