Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!think!samsung!usc!polyslo!news From: mdeale@sargas.acs.calpoly.edu (Myron Deale) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: IBM to offer NeXTStep on AIX Message-ID: <25d1d672.1db8@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Date: 8 Feb 90 20:28:34 GMT References: <1990Feb6.210929.13426@aqdata.uucp> <22156@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Reply-To: mdeale@sargas.acs.calpoly.edu.UUCP (Myron Deale) Organization: ACS, Cal Poly, San Luis Lines: 26 In article <22156@unix.cis.pitt.edu> jonathan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) writes: >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. Key phrase: supported by the industry leaders. I realize I'm being a stick in the mud, but whatever IBM supports ... I get suspicious. Same with the rooskies denouncing communism :) I hope OSF, NextStep and NeXT do well. OSF though, is supposed to be a group effort and not a forum for 'em, er IBM. I am confident OSF will make it, but I'd rather see it die now than become the puppet of one company, a large company. -Myron // mdeale@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu