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OPEN LOOK Applications To Be Available For IBM, DEC And H-P Platforms

SunFLASH Vol 13 #20 					 January 1990 
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	XView Toolkit To Be Offered For Other Platforms
	Now Customers Can Standardize On a Single GUI
 
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. --January 23, 1990-- In response to customer demand
for the OPEN LOOK(TM) graphical user interface on other UNIX platforms,
Sun Microsystems and UniPress Software today announced their intention
to offer Sun's XView(TM) toolkit -- used to design OPEN LOOK
applications -- for UNIX(R) workstations from Digital Equipment Corp.,
Hewlett-Packard and IBM.  As a result, application developers can now
standardize on a single graphical user interface (GUI) for UNIX
workstations.  The announcement was made at the UniForum trade show
being held here.

XView -- already available for Sun platforms -- is also provided to the
industry on the X11 tape from MIT and is shipped as a standard part of
AT&T's UNIX System V Release 4.

"With this agreement, software developers get a mature, stable,
portable toolkit for multiple platforms that implements OPEN LOOK on
the X Window System, which is becoming the industry standard window
system," said Carl Wolf, vice president of software products at Sun.
"This continues OPEN LOOK's momentum toward becoming an industry
standard graphical user interface."

OPEN LOOK is an intuitive graphical user interface designed by Sun,
AT&T and the industry, with technology licensed from Xerox PARC.  It
features icons, pull-down menus, point-and-click mouse controls and
other aspects found in "user-friendly" systems.  The interface is easy
to learn and master without any prior experience while also requiring
less effort -- fewer keystrokes, short cursor movements.  Developers
can create software that includes the OPEN LOOK GUI by using XView.

The XView toolkit for IBM, DEC and HP broadens the market for
independent software developers (ISV), allowing them to easily and
quickly design products with a common GUI for several workstation
platforms.  Users in companies with diverse equipment will benefit by
using the same interface.

XView is part of Sun's OpenWindows(TM) application development
environment, which also includes OPEN LOOK, X11/NeWS(TM) window system,
OpenFonts(TM) font technology and DeskSet(TM) "everyday" productivity
tools.  Pricing and availability of the XView toolkit for DEC, HP and
IBM will be announced in the near future.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a
leading worldwide supplier of network-based distributed computing
systems, including professional workstations, servers and UNIX
operating system and productivity software.

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XView, X11/NeWS, OpenFonts, DeskSet and OpenWindows are trademarks of
Sun Microsystems, Inc.  OPEN LOOK is a trademark of AT&T.  UNIX is a
registered trademark of AT&T.  All other products or services mentioned
in this document are identified by the trademarks or service marks of
their respective companies or organizations.

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