Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: OPEN LOOK announced first (was: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend? Message-ID: <1991Feb8.034911.13161@alphalpha.com> Date: 8 Feb 91 03:49:11 GMT References: <2995@sodium.ATT.COM> Organization: asi Lines: 25 In article <2995@sodium.ATT.COM> esg@sodium.ATT.COM (Edward Gokhman) writes: >Exactly. Also it is not always a case of likes and dislikes - >it all depends on what hat you are wearing. If you are >an independent software vendor you most likely to hook up with >the wood behind the Sun's arrow - SPARC/SVR4/OpenWindow platform. The >market share is a magic magnet in software business. I definitely agree that market share if the magnet - that's why I chose Motif. It runs on over 150 hardware platforms *including* Sun's. we'll consider doing an Open Look interface as soon as the market demands it - but so far we haven't had any requests. People seem perfectly happy with Motif. SPARC != Open Look, no matter what Sun may say. >The choice of OpenLook toolkits is a critical advantage. >The XView toolkit allows for a migration of over 2,800 (!) existing >SunView applications. Such a migration is not really That's nice if I have any, but I don't, so it's not really relevant. -- Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | info@alfalfa.com 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.