SunView includes a full suite of productivity applications, including an email reader, calendaring tool, text editor, clock, preferences, and menu management interface (all
GUIs). The idea of shipping such clients and the associated server software with the base OS was several years ahead of the rest of the industry. Sun's original SunView application suite was later ported to
X, featuring the
OPEN LOOK look and feel. Known as the
DeskSet productivity tool set, this was one distinguishing element of Sun's
OpenWindows desktop environment. The DeskSet tools became a unifying element at the end of the
Unix wars, where the
open systems industry was embroiled in a battle which would last for years. As part of the
COSE initiative, it was decided that Sun's bundled applications would be ported yet again, this time to the
Motif widget toolkit, and the result would be part of
CDE. This became the standard for a time across all open systems vendors. The full suite of group productivity applications that Sun had bundled with the desktop workstations turned out to be a significant legacy of SunView. While the underlying windowing infrastructure changed, protocols changed, and windowing systems changed, the Sun applications remained largely the same, maintaining interoperability with previous implementations. ==Successors==