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Subject: Does anybody know about X/Open's CAE?
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 12:15:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 12:15:41 1987
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Information Week, January 26, 1987 notes on pages 9-10:

>   "The X/Open Group, a European consortium of large American and Eurpoean
>vendors, traveled across the Atlantic to a snowbound Uniforum to announce
>the publication of the Portability Guide, a five-volume set of specifications
>for its Common Applications Environment.
>   The Common Applications Environment (CAE), devised by the X/Open Group to
>ensure intervendor portability of applications, is a layer of software that
>runs on top of any operating system to turn its individual applications
>software interface into a generic standard interface.  It is completely
>invisible to the user.  'Worrying about the CAE would be like worrying about
>what the crankshaft of your car is made of,' says X/Open Group chairman
>Geoff Morris of ICL Ltd.
>   All members of X/Open Group - up to 11 members since AT&T joined last week-
>are committed to bringing to market a version of the CAE for their Unix 
>operating systems by the third quarter.  Member and nonmember software
>developers are also tailoring their applications software to run on top of
>the CAE.
>   Morris believes it is unlikely that vendors will adapt the CAE to their
>proprietary operating systems; its primary vehicle will be Unix, therre it 
>will be a way to deliver on the promise of Unix as a vendor-independent
>environment."

Where can I get more information about this?  Has anybody else heard anything
about this (sorry, I missed Uniforum and requests for information from AT&T
and Apollo have not bore fruit)?  Any information about this will be
greatly appreciated, since we are developing Unix windowing applications
and are looking at X-Windows when V11 hits the streets.  Thanks in advance. :-)

Dave Bakken
Boeing Commercial Airplane Company
Flight Simulation Lab
uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!tahoma!bakken
(206) 237-5980

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