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- From: snail@lsl.co.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Motif numbers per Open Systems Today & X Business Group
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.125019.2975@lsl.co.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 12:50:19 GMT
- References: <1jku7kINNn4k@shelley.u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1jku7kINNn4k@shelley.u.washington.edu>, sinan@carson.u.washington.edu (Sinan Karasu) writes:
- > So if there are 7000 sites with 142 machines per site
- > then 1% uniform Motif distribution results in
- > approximately " 78% of all sites has Motif running
- > on at least on one machine".
- >
- > Interesting Statistics? I thought so.Credible? You judge.
- > BTW Open Systems Today again used these statistics in an
- > article today. So It Goes.
-
- So what? That means these people have gone to the effort of getting something
- that is better than what they got lumbered with buying from Sun.
-
- Find any other vendors shipping OpenLook with their kit? Lets try a few....
-
- IBM No
- Data General No
- DEC No
- Hewlett Packard No
- Silicon Graphics No
-
- Funny, they all supply Motif based interfaces. I wonder why?
-
- Oh yes, every Sun we VAR, gets Motif on it for our customers. No complaints,
- I wonder why?
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- snail@lsl.co.uk
-
- "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless
- means to side with the powerful, not to be Neutral."
- Quote by Freire.
- Poster by OXFAM.
-