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From: jag@Eng.Sun.COM (James Gosling)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: sun's commitment to NeWS
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Date: 7 Mar 90 01:13:33 GMT
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The windows group has spent the past months focused on X11.  With
the upcoming Summer release of X11/NeWS, we feel comfortable about the
quality of the X11 side of the product.  We are now restoring balance to
our efforts and will be spending significantly more energy on NeWS.

The timing of the rash of "NeWS is dead" messages on the net has been
really ironic; they started just after we kicked off the new internal
emphasis on NeWS.

It has always been clear to us (Sun) that we have to produce both
standards and innovative technology.  In the windows area the X11/NeWS
merge provides a synthesis of the two that allows us to deliver
standards and to innovate.  The combination of the X11 and NeWS
protocols into one server provides a more flexible development platform
and ultimately a larger application base for end users.  X11 and the
purely PostScript part of NeWS represent the standards side, while NeWS
is where we will be concentrating our innovative leading edge technology

We're doing a lot of work in turning TNT into a real product, and we're
doing work on object-oriented client-side toolkits.  There are a number
of NeWS-based applications from Sun and third parties that will become
available in the near future.

Sun has significantly increased the resources it is dedicating to NeWS.
This includes the NeWS portion of the X11/NeWS merged server, the NeWS
toolkit, and the integration of our desktop environment with NeWS.  In
order to achieve greater focus on the NeWS technology, we have
consolidated internal NeWS development under a single organization.  In
the forthcoming months you will see a much greater commitment to NeWS.

Please send mail to tnt-request@sun.com if you would like to receive
documentation for the experimental version of TNT distributed with
OpenWindows 1.0.  Domestic US customers should receive the documentation
within three weeks.  Overseas shipments are expected to take longer.