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From: ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: OSF X tools (was Re: hp-ux 7.0 recall?)
Message-ID: <101950094@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 7 Feb 90 23:35:09 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> Recently Sun announced that their proprietary window manager was 
> being ported to other platforms, such as HP. (only the fact that 
> UniPress was doing the port lent me hope, I have SEEN their software 
> :-)
> 
> If HP doesn't finish UIMX before this happens, or NewWave, or any of 
> the other neat X tools, then you all at HP should just give up.  Sun 
> will carry the day if the OSF members keep dragging their feet.

I don't understand how come you see Sun's window manager as a
threat/competitor with UIMX.  UIMX is an interface builder which is a
much different tool than a window manager.  It would seem that you are
unfamiliar with the technology or at least the terminology.

The competition will be between MWM (Motif Window Manager) and Sun's
window manager.  MWM has been released by OSF and runs very well on HP
platforms (that where we developed it 8-).  MWM has been ported across
a wide variety of platforms and is much more stable than most Sun
software products that I have come in contact with.

> Tony Burzio

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