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From: jonathan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jonathan  Eunice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: IBM to offer NeXTStep on AIX
Message-ID: <22156@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 90 00:57:24 GMT
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Reply-To: jonathan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jonathan  Eunice)
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Michael T. Sullivan (sullivan@aqdata.uucp):
> > [ Daniel L. Grillo writes: ]
> >         NextStep will join OSF/Motif as graphical user interface offerings  
> > planned for the IBM PS/2 and RISC computers running AIX, IBM's open- 
> > standard UNIX operating system based on AT&T System V and BSD 4.3.  
>
> ...as OSF sinks slowly in the sunset...

If OSF is sinking -- and the story on this is not entirely in, IMHO --
it is not because of OSF/Motif.  Motif is a solid product well
supported by the industry leaders.  Moreover, several Interface
Builder-like programs were shown at the recent UniForum, leading me to
belive that NextStep won't for long be the only GUI for which
applications can easily be written.