jeffery@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Jeffery Cavallaro) (02/28/91)
Well, it seems that the overriding concensus (and I totally agree) is that we all do not care who or what wins, but we want someone to now. IS ANYONE AT UI, OSF, etc. CENTRAL LISTENING !!! Frankly, I have had it. These vendor wars have stiffled the community under the guise of forwarding it. If anyone says "OPEN SYSTEM" to me again, I will puke (preferrably on the person). The problem is that our manager's are BUYING the propoganda (and the products). You should see the propoganda flowing around here generated by various manager level types. The vendors have really hoodwinked them into believing that they (the managers) are technically savy and are contributing to the consolidation of the software industry by committing to their product. What garbage. Jeff
gjc@mitech.com (03/01/91)
In article <1015@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>, jeffery@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Jeffery Cavallaro) writes: > > IS ANYONE AT UI, OSF, etc. CENTRAL LISTENING !!! > Look on the (bright?) side. UI and OSF are only a small part of the large GUI scenario. And the X-Window unix world is a small part indeed of that larger world. MS-Windows, OS/2 and the Macintosh represent a large part of the GUI applications installed and to-be-installed base. If a software developer can make its application run in both Motif and Open-* then it might help them abstract things enough to also be able to run in MS-Windows, OS/2 and Macintosh. Or, looking at it the other way, if you have a way to handle MS-Windows, OS/2 and the Macintosh all at once then the Motif vs Open-* problem will be trivial in comparison. -gjc