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- From: sinan@carson.u.washington.edu (Sinan Karasu)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Motif numbers per Open Systems Today & X Business Group
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 08:41:15 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- References: <1jku7kINNn4k@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan25.125019.2975@lsl.co.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan25.125019.2975@lsl.co.uk> snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
- >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?
- Again according to ComputerWorld there were 550,000 copies of OpenLook
- shipped and 500,000 copies of Motif were shipped. Moreover , there were
- only 5000 copies of Motif were licensed on Suns. Did you VAR 5000
- Suns by any chance?
-
- >--
- >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.
-
- Sinan
-