Sun Microsystems Inc has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it couldn’t tick off the Motif and Distributed Computing Environment boxes on the bids: the Common Open Systems Environment will at least get it back in the running for a $20m deal at Boeing Co that requires Motif and Sun insiders reckon that the company will now include Motif in its price list almost immediately – the best guess is that SunSoft will offer reasonably priced Motif upgrades for Solaris 1.X and make it standard with Solaris 2.1 and 2.X, making those operating systems more attractive.
