scott%gotham.East@dreamon.UUCP (Scott Manville) (04/23/89)
Open Vistas Association, dedicated to the open systems philosophy and to the promotion of window systems having intelligence, held its first meeting at Uniforum in February. Our next meeting will be at the Baltimore Usenix. (Anyone who would like to participate, or exhibit in our--subsidized--booth, should contact me at the address below, or speak with the Grasshopper Group.) OVA is an organization for all users of the forthcoming Unix System V window system, X-11/NeWS; and all current users of NeWS and PostScript technology. OVA will offer a newsletter and bulletin board, an office to contact for information and referrals, a technology distribution service for products in the public domain--but most importantly, it will raise the profile, both academic and commercial, of X-11/NeWS. This PostScript-based technology is truly open, with at least seven active vendors, over a dozen platforms, and over fifty licensees--even before the release of X-11/NeWS. (And there are certainly NeWS products I am not aware of yet. Please tell me what you have, and I will mention it in our publications and discussions with the press.) It is open to you, too. Membership is extremely reasonable, with individual and non-profit rates of $30, and a corporate rate of only $100. For more information, contact me, Scott Manville, at Open Vistas Association, 80 East 11th St., Suite 222, New York, New York 10003. 212 979 5337.
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (04/25/89)
OVA is an organization for all users of the forthcoming Unix System V
window system, X-11/NeWS;
It's first order of business should be to learn to spell X11 correctly. :-)