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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend?
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.153315.14775@alphalpha.com>
Date: 30 Jan 91 15:33:15 GMT
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In article <2977@sodium.ATT.COM> esg@sodium.ATT.COM (Edward Gokhman) writes:
>However, in workstation sales Sun alone is outpasting the Motif
>camp by over 60%, which is the reason why independed software
>vendors offer applications roughly 3:1 in favor of OPENLOOK,
>according to the past several months surveys by >Personal Workstation<
>magazine, which was quoted heavily on this network for this

Personal Workstation has been incredibly deficient in counting
Motif applications.  In fact even when reviewing a new Motif app in
their magazine they didn't up the count.  They also don't count
development tools or non-USA apps, and I think development tools are
a much better long range predictor.  A quick floor count at Uniforum
rang up a definite majority of Motif apps over Open Look apps.  Also
recall that just because Sun is the leading workstation vendor doesn't
mean that Open Look wins by default.  There are at least 17 vendors
currently offering Motif on Suns.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.