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From: abstine@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend?
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Date: 22 Jan 91 23:53:18 GMT
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From article <1335@west.West.Sun.COM>, by saunders@gesundheit.West.Sun.COM (Gene Saunders):
> 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
> 

I attended this year's X conference and in the tutorial I attended on
application builders/UIMS, the question was posed as to who was building
products, etc using Motif vs OpenLook. Out of probably some 200+ people in
the room, the majority (maybe 80%) were using Motif and maybe few dozen
were using OpenLook. Kind of interesting, albeit not very scientific,
statistics...

art stine 
sr network engineer
clarkson u
abstine@hobbes.erc.clarkson.edu