RE: iSeries (non-) Marketing - part 24,566

> From: Hans Boldt
> 
> But even if
> they had thrown 10 times as much money into marketing it, I don't
> think it would have gotten much further than it did.

<chuckling>

I'm not sure what you're implying, but if it's that OS/2 wasn't very
good, then I can only wonder if there is an IBM product you DON'T think
sucks?


I actually developed one of the only commercially viable
enterprise-level OS/2 client/server applications (and when I say I
developed, I mean that it was my project, from hiring to hardware -
dozens of people working on a multi-million line application), and I'll
say this: OS/2 was, at the time, the most powerful desktop operating
system available.  It was robust, stable and performed better than
anything out there.  It was truly "a better DOS than DOS, a better
Windows than Windows".

The documentation was spotty, but the OS was incredible.  Once you got
something working, it WORKED.  Our code was so tight by the end that we
actually removed all the memory leaks (something a few modern programs
could probably learn).

Most of the good stuff that NT and its descendants share came originally
from OS/2 (yet another brilliant move on Gates' part).  My guess is that
a lot of the stuff that that still stinks hearkens back to Windows 3.11
<smile>.

Joe