warner@intellistor.com (Dave Warner) (02/28/91)
I'm using an application purchased from a third party vendor that runs only under SunView. When I ask the vendor "When are you going to make this available under X?", they reply "That's a biiiig job, send us $300,000 (I'm not kidding) and we'll do it in six months or so." In my ignorance I reply "<expletives deleted>, there's got to be an emulation library or some such thing that makes such an evolution pretty easy." Am I wrong? If so, chastise me. If not, please enlighten me with specifics. Thanks, Dave -- _____________________________________________________________________ | Dave Warner | e-mail address: warner@intellistor.com | | Intellistor, Inc. | USmail address: 2402 Clover Basin Dr. | | (303)682-6555 | Longmont, CO 80503 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
warner@intellistor.com (Dave Warner) (03/06/91)
Thanks to all who replied with essentially the same answer, i.e. "Use Sun's XView toolkit; it's pretty simple if the application is reasonably well behaved and doesn't use pixrect." I have taken the liberty of forwarding your replies to the offending vendor as well as writing a letter for the president of my company to sign stating that we may well disqualify their product from further use if X is not available soon as well as telling one of their joint development partners the same thing. What else can a person do?? Thanks again, Dave -- _____________________________________________________________________ | Dave Warner | e-mail address: warner@intellistor.com | | Intellistor, Inc. | USmail address: 2402 Clover Basin Dr. | | (303)682-6555 | Longmont, CO 80503 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------