Thanks to all for the replies. Sounds like OSF and IXI dominate, but
nobody has had major problems. Also, we should be evaluating the
needs of specific applications we intend to use. Special thanks to:
Lawson A S
Frank Greco
Anchi Zhang
Michael K. Glass
James W. Williams
Replies follow:
>From tony@essex.ac.ukMon Jul 31 10:59:24 1995
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 95 10:49:11 +0100
From: Lawson A S <tony@essex.ac.uk>
To: Scott Mitchell <smitch@eratos.erin.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: Motif on SunOS 4.1.x
We just bought version 2 of Motif from OSF direct - academic site
license $1000. It was the best deal for us to get Motif on Sun under
SunOS.
Tony Lawson
Department of Computer science
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Essex C04 3SQ
Tel: 0206-872670
Fax: 0206-872788
E-mail: tony@essex.ac.uk
>From fgreco@lehman.comMon Jul 31 10:59:35 1995
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 95 09:16:31 EDT
From: Frank Greco <fgreco@lehman.com>
To: Scott Mitchell <smitch@eratos.erin.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: Motif on SunOS 4.1.x
> The FAQ lists a number of vendors of Motif for Sun, but doesn't try to do
> much in the way of comparison. Sun sells their own version I gather, and
Sun resells the IXI product.
> recently I read that they've also started a partnership with one of the
> "other" suppliers.
Sun also resells the Xdesigner package as part of "Visual SPARCworks".
Frank G.
>From anchi@Starbase.NeoSoft.COMMon Jul 31 10:59:39 1995
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 08:33:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: Anchi Zhang <anchi@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
To: smitch@eratos.erin.utoronto.ca
Subject: Re: Motif on SunOS 4.1.x
I thought Sun was selling IXI's port.
We are using IXI bundled with the Telerate software on 400 Suns.
Anchi
>From michael@ide.comMon Jul 31 10:59:45 1995
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 95 07:59:54 PDT
From: "Michael K. Glass" <michael@ide.com>
To: Scott Mitchell <smitch@eratos.erin.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: Motif on SunOS 4.1.x
Sun Uses IXI's Motif. I am partial to OSF's. Cost was $2,000.00 from them
for the sources on a one time basis. I have built X11R5 and MOTIF on both
SunOS4 and SunOS5. There many hacks for the SLOWlaris port but it still
works.
Michael
Michael K. Glass aka: michaelg@menagerie.com aka: michaelg@hooked.net
Interactive Development Environments
595 Market St. 10th floor
San Francisco, CA. 94105
>From williams@atscv1.atsc.allied.comMon Jul 31 10:59:50 1995
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 16:50:16 -0500
From: "James W. Williams" <williams@atscv1.atsc.allied.com>
To: Scott Mitchell <smitch@eratos.erin.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: Motif on SunOS 4.1.x
Scott,
We bought Motif from IXI for our machines, principally because Oracle 7.x
and it's GUI products required it. The user pack is $149 US, and developer
pack is $699 US. The developer pack had the needed libraries which we
needed for relinking the Oracle CDE tools. The user pack had MWM which was
required for the GUI operation.
I would suggest that you see what the products which you will run on the
machine require and then make a choice. With Oracle, we had only one
choice, and that was the product which they had certified against their
products.
Jim
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