Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Window Warz Message-ID: <5349@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 6 Sep 88 02:05:27 GMT References: <8809021443.AA12775@uunet.UU.NET> Reply-To: barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 29 In article <8809021443.AA12775@uunet.UU.NET> mo@prisma.UUCP (Mike O'Dell) writes: | |There has been a lot of conversation about "Has X Won the Window Wars?" | |I can't understand why supposedly technically-minded people INSIST on |talking about winners and losers. No window system on UNIX has anything |remotely like the software available on the Macintosh, so if you are |inclined to use "market choice" as your yardstick, THEY ALL LOSE. I can't believe you have so completely missed the point. First of all, I express doubt that any software package on the Mac can compete with the several packages we purchased for our Unix workstations. (One package costs more than $50,000). Second, if you had to develop a large complex application you want running on as broad a base a possible, which window system would you choose to spend all of you effort in? Us technically-minded people aren't *using* the packages on current window systems, but *developing* packages for future window systems. Look and feel are important issues, sure. But if you had to start writing code tomorrow, you would have to make a decision. Now. -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!steinmetz!barnett