marshall@software.org (Eric Marshall) (12/15/88)
Depending on who you are and what you believe in, here is some good/bad news from the recent Sun User Group conference held in Miami Beach concerning Sun's merged NeWS and X11 server and their NDE Open Look toolkit. The first custom shipping date of the merged server is July 1989. The NDE toolkit is to be released in the winter of 1989. Both the merged server and NDE-based applications were demonstrated at the conference. The speed of the server is currently about half that of the NeWS 1.1 server, and its static size is about twice that of the NeWS 1.1 server. Sun showed speed and size measurements of the merged server over its development, and the server is getting both faster and smaller. At least for the initial release of the server, Sun is recommending that the server is run on machines with at least 8 MB of main memory, though it can run on 4 MB systems, although more slowly. Within the past month, Sun has hired a NeWS marketing manager whose job it is to go out and spread the NeWS gospel. His name is Steve Messino, smessino@sun.com, and his phone number is (415) 336-2017. Hopefully Steve and the rest of us NeWS zealots can all work together to make this NeWS thing work! Just thought you'd like to know. Eric Marshall Software Productivity Consortium 1880 North Campus Commons Drive Reston, VA 22091 (703) 391-1838 CSNET: marshall@software.org ARPANET: marshall%software.org@relay.cs.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's quote: Donal O'Shea (an OSF VP) on System V.4: "It's not of sufficient quality. People can't put commercial applications on it."