Gossip on the Comdex floor is that there are only three user interfaces that have a real chance in the bidding for the Open Software Foundation’s standard front-end to AIX Unix – and two of the three, AT&T Co’s Open Look and DEC’s DECwindows are effectively ruled out for political reasons, leaving the Hewlett Packard Co-Microsoft CXI, announced on Wednesday (CI No 1,060) as the likely winner.
