Re: Free OS/400

[Nina Jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> But right here, for years, when I was an OS/2 user, I used to see many posts
> telling IBM to "give it up" and ditch OS/2. Every year, year after year, the
> pros from this list predicted "this will be the year when IBM stops
> supporting OS/2." Now, OS/2 is still supported, but IBM surely did give up
> the ghost. The whole set of economics around this takes up more room than I
> want to give here.

i didn't write any letters to ibm, but in the mid 90's we were on the microsoft
bandwagon.  and i couldn't even begin to explain why, it seemed like everyone 
was
doing it.  so that was the place to be.  i knew about os/2 but it wasn't where
the business comunity was.  kinda like mac's....

lockups, rebooting, etc, just seemed to be a way of life with p/c's.  i didn't
realize until later that these things were bill gate's doing.  and if you took a
poll amoung average users, i would imagine that most people still don't realize
this.  if they did, there would be more outrage about bill gates and his 40%
profit margin, and how we all suffer because of it (not that he makes money but
he is not held accountable).

i do not know about deals between microsoft and ibm.  but i don't think ibm got
the word out on a wide enough basis that os/2 was stable and reliable. after
windows 95 was released, as buggy as ever, ibm should have shouted from the
rooftops that their p/c operating system was reliable.  that would have made
people want to use it, not feel that they had to.

nj

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