[COMP] the Gnome Foundation

Wow: IBM, Compaq, HP, and Sun are to announce Tuesday the formation of the 
Gnome Foundation, "a developer consortium that will undertake, among other 
things, the creation of a standardized desktop interface for Linux, and a 
suite of productivity programs designed to compete with MS office."

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/08/biztech/articles/14linux.html (a 
free registration required to read articles at the nytimes)

It seems Sun will also use GNOME as their preferred desktop for Solaris.  
That's another biggie, since Sun's always been in the CDE court. (CDE's a 
commercial desktop environment)

And let's not forget the Eazel people, who are planning on a release by 
the end of the year.  Remember that they're all former Macintosh 
programmers.... :)

John



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