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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 09:38:46 PDT
- From: sinan@Mtesol.boeing.com (Sinan Karasu)
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- Subject: Re: Motif Numbers
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- > From nazgul@alfalfa.com Mon Aug 24 22:48:20 1992
- > To: sinan@Mtesol (Sinan Karasu)
- > Cc: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu, openlook@uunet.UU.NET, motif@alfalfa.com
- > Subject: Re: Motif Numbers
- > X-Mailer: Poste 2.1B1
- > From: nazgul@alfalfa.com (Kee Hinckley)
- > Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 00:40:44 -0400
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- > >
- > > Boy am I confused.
- > > We just received a circular from Bluestone that claims "Nearly 90% of the
- > > workstation market , and 60% of the Sun market run Motif."
- > I would assume that means "90% of the non-Sun workstation market". Of course
- > measuring marketshare is not as easy as it might seem.
- If that is the case then since after subracting 330,000 from 500,000
- (they claim 60% of 550,000 Suns run Motif) then 90% of non-Sun workstations
- is 170,000 which puts Non-Sun numbers to about 190,000. Hardly a credible
- number.Particularly considering about 200,000 Non-Motif Apollo machines
- out there. Sorry that does not explain it.
- >
- > > come from ? Does any of the vendors have the right to distribute
- > > Motif without licensing ?
- > I believe so.
- Which ones?
- >
- >
- > > right no matter what I try !! What is the actual Installed base for Motif
- > > and for OpenLook? I need these numbers since I am trying to ascertain
- > > the future direction of GUI world ( i.e. is it Motif? OpenLook?
- > > Microsoft NT, Bitmap oriented or DisplayPostScript? Something
- > > we haven't heard of yet?). What am I missing?
- > Well, it depends a lot on the market you are talking about of course, and I
- > won't even attempt to get into the NT vs. Unix wars (again). However I think
- > you can fairly say that most non-Sun workstations are not running OpenLook
- > applications, and that a fair percentage of Sun workstations are running at
- What about the desktop applications?
- > least some Motif applications. Is that bland enough to sound real?
- So does that mean that a Sun running a Motif application under OpenWindows
- automatically become a Motif Sun workstation?
-
- > nazgul@alfalfa.com
- > 617/646-7703 voice/fax
- >
- > If Unix is the answer, then we've clearly forgotten the question.
- >
- Sorry. It still does not sound bland enough.
- Sinan
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