Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!benoni From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: is news loosing the battle? Message-ID: <2060@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: 2 Jul 88 22:59:47 GMT References:Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA Lines: 44 in article , wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) says: > I have been following both the news and x news groups for a fair while > now and lately i have noticed that there is about ten times the traffic > in the x news group. are there that many more people developing under > x than news, or is the volume just skewed by all the universities on > the net? A couple of thoughts : 1) X has a fairly significant lead on NeWS at the moment. You have to take into consideration that NeWS is only just starting to come out for systems such as the Macintosh and has yet to come out for PCs. However, Silicon Graphics has just released a window management system that includes NeWS. It is a NeWS/X window manager called 4sight (or something like that). Other computer vendors are also working on ports...Sun itself will shortly be coming out with its supported NeWS/X port...SCO is reportedly going to have NeWS/X for their Xenix systems... 2) The next questions are : what is the staying power of X given NeWS' availability on similar platforms? Will the future simply be NeWS/X window managers or just one or the other? I don't think too many people are arguing that X11 is technically better ... rather more people tend to argue the reverse (surprisingly even some of the X folks concede the point) ... > our company has a specialized cad package that we will eventually port > to run under either news, x, or what ever becomes the standard. it Actually the next year should be alot of fun to watch... there will be alot products out for X...NeWS action should be picking up in intensity also ... as it is supposedly included with Release 4 of Unix...new vendors should emerge. NeWS products should also be forthcoming...(recently Sun announced it's first NeWS product - SNA 327? emulation) The recent schisms in the Unix world will make all this even more interesting... One more note : I tend to think that those companies that offer both systems are in a much better position than those companies only offering X... ------------------ Naturally these are MY own opinions and not those of my employers.