Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bbn.com!nic!bunny!xev From: xev@gte.com (Xev Gittler) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend? Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 91 23:56:51 GMT References: <1335@west.West.Sun.COM> <1991Jan22.235318.2483@vicorp.com> Organization: GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham MA Lines: 29 In <1991Jan22.235318.2483@vicorp.com> abstine@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine) writes: >From article <1335@west.West.Sun.COM>, by saunders@gesundheit.West.Sun.COM (Gene Saunders): >> OpenLook Motif NeXT OS/2 PM >> ----------- >> 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... I was there too, and I noticed that quite a few of those that raised their hands for OpenLook had `Sun Microsystem' on their badges. I have spoken too or heard from people who are developing applications for large companies as well as purchasing software for large companies, and everything that I heard points to the fact that they think Motif will win because of the MASSIVE base of people who already know PM and can pick up Motif with very little effort. I think that it will be these really large companies that choose Motif that will cause it to win the war. -- Xev Gittler xev@bunny.gte.com