OpenWindows desktop environment was removed from Solaris 9 in favor of CDE (Common Desktop Environment). Some OpenWindows compatibility libraries are still present in the system, however.
IMHO, OpenWindows looks much more better than CDE :-)
Fortunately, there is a project that allows to have almost full OpenWindows environment in Solaris 9 and 10 (SPARC and x86). It's called OWAcomp (OpenWindows Augmented Compatibility Environment):
http://freshmeat.net/projects/OWacomp
http://step.polymtl.ca/~coyote/XView/index.php?path=OWacomp/
OpenWindows needs Display PostScript to work correctly, so if you want to use it in Solaris on x86 platform, you need to switch X server from Xorg to Xsun (use kdmconfig utility, /usr/openwin/bin/kdmconfig).
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