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From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Why I'm suspicious of X
Message-ID: <2307@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 19:18:33 GMT
References: <1684@desint.UUCP>
Reply-To: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Organization: Paradyne Corporation,   Largo FL
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In article <1684@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
>
>At this point, a lot of this is moot.  The NeWS/X war is going to be won
>in the marketplace, not on the technical front.  I think I see a lead for
>X, because the variety of companies that support it is larger.  It will
>be fun to see if the marketing wizards at Sun can overcome this lead.

      How can anything be won in the marketplace when most vendors will
only offer the marketplace a single solution?  It is all politics.  The
reason lots of vendors (mostly those opposed to the recent Sun and AT&T
agreements) are going with X11 is that it does not belong to any one
vendor.  Sun was successful with NFS because there was no competing
solution that came from an independent source (if you believe that DEC's
backing of MIT did not affect this status).

      X11 seems to be attractive to many on the low end market.  Can NeWS
address this area?  Who knows.  SCO is planning on supporting the X11/NeWS
merge here.  So perhaps on the low end market there will be a choice.  You
will have to turn to third parties for NeWS on many products where vendors
will only support X for their machines.  This alone gives X a huge leg up
in the race.  


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