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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Why I'm suspicious of X
Message-ID: <1705@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 04:08:25 GMT
References: <1684@desint.UUCP> <2307@pdn.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <2307@pdn.UUCP>, reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) writes:
> 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
>       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).

Well this pre-supposes that alot of people that learn the virtues of NeWS
over X will remain silent (and vice versa).  Look if people let vendors
get away with giving them only X11 with their Unix then what you say is
true...however now that NeWS is standard Unix...certain identifiable
vendors will have a rough time selling their Unix with only X11. :^)
Some of us (that constitute part of the marketplace) are already busy 
requesting vendors support NeWS/X11.  Some vendors like Silicon Graphics 
are offering both (even before the AT&T/Sun deal). Other vendors have 
stated that they will support only X11...not surprisingly these companies 
may have a rough time selling their machines...since it is lacking part 
of the standard unix release - (not to mention that if you are a buyer - 
would you buy from a vendor that offered two possible solutions or just one).

>       X11 seems to be attractive to many on the low end market.  Can NeWS
People are writing NeWS ports to the Mac II and 386 boxes...
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