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- From: jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping)
- Subject: Re: SunSoft's OpenWindows Directions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.174324.902@cs.hope.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.hope.edu
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- Organization: Hope College
- References: <1k6eitINN564@armory.centerline.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:43:24 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- In article 1k6eitINN564@armory.centerline.com, matt@centerline.com (Matt Landau) writes:
- >
- >This sounds a lot like SunSoft is setting the stage to *drop* XView
- >entirely. The phrases "maintain your present applications" and "need
- >functionality not available on XView" conspicuously avoids any mention
- >of new application development using XView, or of ongoing development
- >work on the XView toolkit itself.
- >
- >Can we have *clear* statement of direction from SunSoft on the future
- >of XView?
-
- C'mon now...fire up your "Marketing-speak" translator and quit harping
- on this guy! He doesn't make policy statements -- he has to present them
- to the general public.
-
- I think it's *OBVIOUS* that XView is going away. By hoisting up OLIT
- in comparison to XView and by implying that there will be "functionality
- not available in XView", I think he's stating that XView is DONE.
-
- At the SUG conference in San Jose, the folks on the Developer's Panel
- stated that no new work will go into XView, all new development will be
- done on OLIT, and that XView headers and libraries will be around for
- a long time to come. Bugfixes will continue for a time. And, yes, there
- is an eye toward EOL'ing XView.
-
- >Don't get me wrong, I think that, politics of the Workstation Wars
- >being what they are, SunSoft might be doing the right thing for its
- >business here (although I'll surely regret the loss of the last truly
- >innovative window system technology outside of NeXT). But the way
- >it's presented here makes it sound like something it isn't.
-
- Again...this guy speak Marketing. Read the signs along the road. XView --
- and NeWS -- will be gone soon (NeWS probably much sooner than XView). I sure
- hope the demise of NeWS does not surprise anyone...it's a great innovative
- technology that no one used. And Sun sure is not in the business of supporting
- what a minority of its customers use. (Remember that no one used the C
- compiler, by Sun's reckoning!) Frankly, I'm surprised Sun hung onto it this
- long.
-
- It *would* be nice for some Sun muckety-muck so give a timeline as to
- when various products are to be EOL'd. But again, read the signs and follow
- your instincts. And remember that Sun was still selling Sun-3s the same month
- it announced their end-of-life!
-
- Mike Jipping
- Hope College Department of Computer Science
- jipping@cs.hope.edu (BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE)
-
- "It was a marketing coup ... to rename SunOS 4.1.X to
- Solaris 1.0. That way, Solaris 2.X could be called
- an upgrade..."
- -- Rob Kolstad, SUG '92
-
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