---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PW's GUI Application Count SunFLASH Vol 21 #14 September 1990 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the GUI application count for the month of September. Personal Workstation is the only unbiased party that tracks applications SHIPPING with various GUIs. For the second month in a row, OPEN LOOK is far ahead, with 55 shipping applications. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PERSONAL WORKSTATION MAGAZINE September, 1990 Application Tally: App. type: OpenLook Motif OS/2 PM NextStep --------------------------------------------------------- Engineering/Science 7 0 0 6 Database 3 1 4 3 Graphics/Illustration 7 3 4 2 Communications/LAN 4 1 5 2 Spreadsheet 4 3 2 2 Word processing/DTP 12 2 3 5 Office tools/Utilities 18 7 4 3 --------------------------------------------------------- TOTAL: 55 17 22 23 Application Watch: "This month's list of shipping applications for multitasking operating systems with a graphical user interface includes only eight new offerings. For the second consecutive month, OPEN LOOK is the big winner, with five new programs. Among the most interesting of this month's new Open Look crop is Parallax Graphics' VideoView, a video editing and visualization package. Other new OPEN LOOK applications include SmallWorld Systems' Smallworld GIS, for geographic mapping; The Color Solution, an electronic publishing application from GEMS of Cambridge Ltd.; the Elan Computer Group's Avalon Electronic Publishing System; and SCICARDS, an electronic design automation package from Harris Corp.'s Harris/Scientific Calculations Division. SCICARDS is the first electronic computer-aided drafting program to appear under OPEN LOOK, and Harris is said to be hard at work on a Motif version of the same program. The sole new Motif application to ship this month is Hewlett-Packard Co.'s HP Visual Editor, which can be used to edit electronic mail and memos. The product works with release 2.0 of HP's Visual User Environment and runs on HP 9000 Series 300 and 800 workstations or HP/Apollo Series 400 workstations. The two additional programs to begin shipping this month are OS/2 Presentation Manager offerings: Imara Research Corp.'s Imara System, an image and information management system; and DeScribe, from DeScribe, Inc., a high-resolution document composition and layout program. Growth for NextStep, NeXT, Inc.'s graphical user interface, remains flat, with no new applications to report this month." ------------------------------------------------------------ Subscriptions: $29.94 for 1 year,$56.94 for 2. Orders from Canada and Mexico: $40 per year. All other countries: $65 per year. Foreign orders must be prepaid in US Funds drawn on a US bank. Fax 415-364-8630 Customer Service: For subscription orders, changes of address and all other subscription inquires write: Personal Workstation. PO Box 54024, Boulder CO 80322-4024 or call 1-800-456-1211 Personal Workstation is a product of Computer Metrics, Inc. This extract and subscription information are provided for your convenience and do not imply an endorsement by Sun Microsystems, Inc. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sunflash is an electronic mail news service from Sun Microsystems, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. It is targeted at Sun Users and Customers. For additional information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM SunFlash is distributed via a hierarchy of aliases. Try to address change requests to the owner of the alias that you belong to. If you want to be added to the SunFlash alias, please contact the systems engineers at your local Sun office and/or send mail to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Address comments to the SunFlash editor (John McLaughlin) at sun!sunvice!flash or flash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. (305) 776-7770.