Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!west!gesundheit.West.Sun.COM!saunders From: saunders@gesundheit.West.Sun.COM (Gene Saunders) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend? Summary: Personal Workstation's "Application Watch" column Keywords: openlook, motif Message-ID: <1335@west.West.Sun.COM> Date: 22 Jan 91 01:35:45 GMT References: <426@yonder.UUCP> <12868@life.ai.mit.edu> Sender: news@west.West.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 39 For a different point of view, see any issue of Personal Workstation in the past year or so; they claim to only track end-user applications (no developer or programming tools). The latest one I have (December 1990, page 16) gives this breakdown: OpenLook Motif NeXT OS/2 PM office tools 20 9 3 4 word process 12 1 5 3 spreadsheet 4 3 2 2 communic/LAN 5 3 2 5 graphics 9 2 2 4 database 3 4 3 4 engineering 7 6 6 0 ----------- total 60 28 23 22 Personal Workstation goes on to suggest that if you know of apps shipping that they haven't listed (I don't know of a cumulative index .. each issue shows only the new entries), to drop them a line: 501 Galveston Drive, Redwood City, California 94063. Me? I'm just the messenger. In article dwf@acl.lanl.gov writes: >In article <12868@life.ai.mit.edu> sundar@ai.mit.edu (Sundar Narasimhan) writes: > SunExpert's January issue claims Workstation GUI breakup to be Motif 62.2%, > OpenWindows 29.7%, DECWindows 2.7%, PM 2.7% and SunView 2.7%. > In Desktop GUI the breakup is given as Windows 52.9%, Motif 26.5%, PM 14.7%, > OpenWindows 5.9%. > > They site International Data Corp as the source for these numbers, and > the article claims that polls indicate that Motif will be the long term > winner. -- Gene Saunders \ gene.saunders@West.Sun.COM \ gsaunders@sun.com Sun Microsystems \ saunders@sunkist (local) \ ..!uunet!sun!gsaunders --- Views stated herein are my own .. my company wants nothing to do with me.