Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!startrek.eng.ohio-state.edu!keith From: keith@startrek.eng.ohio-state.edu (Keith M Boyer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: OSF/Motif vs. NeWS vs. SUN/Open Windows vs. ? Message-ID: <76870@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 9 Feb 90 06:51:23 GMT References: <15521@well.UUCP> <1504@ole.UUCP> <130335@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Jan17.033134.4139@uncecs.edu> <1752@hjuxa.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Keith M Boyer Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 31 In article bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >In article <1752@hjuxa.UUCP> jjf@hjuxa.UUCP (FRANEY) writes: > According to January 1990 BYTE (p 286) > Motif is attractive and useful... > >`Attractive' is in the eye of the beholder. The other day, when The other day someone important (in the CIS dept) stopped me in the hall and said "Don't we have Motif on our HPs"? To which I responded no, but we will when we get and install HP-UX 7.0. Then he said "I think we should choose one set of windowing tools and put them on all our machines. Why don't you and the others discuss this and let me know which." So I went looking for the right place to ask the question on the net and here I find this thread looking me right in the face. So, Bob, Amanda, anyone. Do you have pointers to a real comparison of the choices, both from a technical and political (which one will survive) point of view on where to place our emphasis. The person I mentioned seems real serious about having a SINGLE set of tools rather than several. I figured I would ask here first and then talk with others at work after I had a better handle on this. It really needs to be a dispassionate comparison, no OSF bashing. 8-) Forgive me if this is old hat to some or all of you. Thanks, ++keith -=- - Keith M. Boyer Department of Computer and Information Science -- THE Ohio State University 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277 - keith@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!osu-cis!cis.ohio-state.edu!keith EVERYTHING SHOULD BE MADE AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE,BUT NOT SIMPLER-Albert Einstein