🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991May28.082241.22523@canon.co.uk>, laukee@canon.co.uk (David Lau-Kee) writes:

    *  rrg@fibercom.COM (Rhonda Gaines) writes:

	**  The header says it all.  I would appreciate any comments
	**  you have on this package (good or bad).  Will it run
	**  under X11?  We have a varied Sun setup and want a
	**  package that will run on all the platforms we have.

    *  Perhaps there is a new version out,
There is (are) new versions for Sun OpenWindows.
    *  but when we evaluated it about 6 months ago
Here in Silicon Valley, entire corporations start up and put themselves
out of business in six months.
    *  we were a little disappointed.  All of the tools seemed
    *  to be 1/2 finished...  though I suspect that this is only
    *  because they compare poorly to the standard of equivallent
    *  tools on the Mac.

    *  The thing that really bugged us was the way the promotional
    *  literature misled us into assuming that it would run fine
    *  under OpenWindows.
Promotional literature per se doesn't mislead -- one gets misled by
what one reads into it.  The lesson to be learned here is not to
make any `buy' decisions based on collateral, but to get evaluation
copies of products.

	........  Henry

    If Operating Systems were buildings,
	UNIX would be the Winchester Mystery House.