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From: gjc@mitech.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: GUI WARS - Are Vendors Listening?
Message-ID: <9109@mitech.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 15:24:07 GMT
References: <1015@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
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Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA
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In article <1015@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>, jeffery@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Jeffery Cavallaro) writes:
> 
> IS ANYONE AT UI, OSF, etc. CENTRAL LISTENING !!!
> 

Look on the (bright?) side. UI and OSF are only a small part of
the large GUI scenario. And the X-Window unix world is a small part
indeed of that larger world.

MS-Windows, OS/2 and the Macintosh represent a large part of the GUI
applications installed and to-be-installed base.

If a software developer can make its application run in both Motif
and Open-* then it might help them abstract things enough to also
be able to run in MS-Windows, OS/2 and Macintosh.

Or, looking at it the other way, if you have a way to handle
MS-Windows, OS/2 and the Macintosh all at once then the Motif vs Open-*
problem will be trivial in comparison.

-gjc