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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: OSF X tools
Summary: SUN vs OSF
Message-ID: <678@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 90 14:55:16 GMT
References: <674@mmlai.UUCP> <101950094@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <101950094@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>, ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth) writes:
> 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.

I am quite aware that the Sun window manager competes with mwm, and that
UIMX is only the interface builder.  The competition is NOT between window
managers per se.  When asked which manager he/she likes, the average
user will reply, "Yeah so?  Which one has better programs AVAILABLE?"
Without UIMX, the OSF member can't catch up with the already available
Sun window manager programs, which are QUITE impressive.  Have you seen
the Xerox-like folder system available on the Sun?  This will probably
bypass NewWave, since it will have a large user base by the time HP
gets around to porting NewWave to UNIX.  How about the extremely large
library of SunTool programs that also run?  Seems Sun has a very large
pool of 3rd party application developers that the OSF members don't have...
Perhaps I am just getting impatient.  I am an HP supporter here at
the Labs, but I am getting tired of being pushed around by the Sunnites
and SGites who say "We have it now!"

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