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From: dkmann@SUN.COM (Darlene Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re:  News or X?
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Date: 8 Jun 89 19:48:49 GMT
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NeWS is NOT dead!!  NeWS 1.1 is shipping out of Sun at healthy rates.
The next "version" of NeWS will be shipping this summer in X11/NeWS.
There are products that are, and will continue to ship on top of NeWS.
There is a NeWS vendors organization (Open Vistas Assoc) who will be
exhibiting NeWS ports and applications at Usenix next week.

I believe you should choose the windows system you use based on your
needs; there are some significant differences between NeWS and X
whereby one my suit your application or environment better than the
other.  As far as standards, reality forces me to believe that you
will find more vendors (i.e. workstation manufacturers) supplying X
with there equipment than NeWS or X11/NeWS.  However, the two
platforms you mention currently ship with NeWS, and I have no reason
to believe that will change in the future.

NeWS is definitely NOT dead. Sun has always been committed to
delivering superior technology to our customers.  However, we are also
committed to supporting the requests of our customers.  We believe
X11/NeWS will meet both requirements.

Darlene Mann
NeWS Product Manager