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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Toolkit for Open Look *and* OSF/Motif Look and Feel
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.183826.3165@visix.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 18:38:26 GMT
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mike@spock.atd.ucar.edu (Mike Daniels) writes:
>My prediction:
>   Open Look will win. Based on the fact that there are more Sun workstations
>out there than other brands and Sun is shipping the Open Look product,
>pre-installed, on the workstations it sells.

Grin.  But by this reasoning, SunView should have already won...  And
there are still a lot of machines out there still running SunView,
surprising as it may seem.  However, not even Sun can produce an
industry consensus by brute force, however much they try :).  NFS is
the only clear example of it so far.

There are enough "DEC shops," "IBM shops," and so on that I think the
market will remain fragmented for some time.  Another of my reasons
for thinking so is simply that GUIs have become political issues,
which means that technical merits are no longer the driving force
behind "standardization" (a term I use advisedly, since it's becoming
about as meaningless as "open" in this industry...).

Then again, at least it's not a boring time to be alive :).
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