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From: vania@osf.ORG (Vania Joloboff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend?
Message-ID: <9101282005.AA18613@osf.osf.org>
Date: 28 Jan 91 20:05:30 GMT
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Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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< > 
< > 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.
               ^^

< 	Just in case you haven't read the paper today (WSJ),  
< 	Microsoft killed all OS/2 and PM development...

Motif is also very close to Windows 3, perhaps closer than PM :-)