HEWLETT-PACKARD ABANDONS DEVELOPMENT OF WIDGET TOOLSET

And Hewlett-Packard has abandoned development on its proprietary Widget toolset for X-Window, and will instead adopt whatever technology is chosen by the Open Software Foundation: according to UK marketing manager Trevor Wing, Hewlett will in future drop any competing in-house developments that do not get chosen as part of the Foundation Level One spec, and has committed to support all shippable products the Foundation introduces.

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