RE: Free OS/400

["Weatherly, Howard" <hweatherly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: Free OS/400

You did not watch much TV back then! :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Nina Jones [mailto:ddi@datadesigninc.com]
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 22:52
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Free OS/400

> Sort of like IBM's full page ad which touted OS/2 and called NT 'Nice Try'.
> And then listed why NT was so much weaker than OS/2?

what they should have done was spend the money used on the stupid os/2 warp ads,
on something oriented to business owners.  a little more graphic than the
newspaper ad, like the blue screen with one of those circles with a line drawn
thru it.

or perhaps an office scene with one guy beating the snot out of his p/c and owner
asking what's wrong.  worker 1 says his computer locked up 5 times today, and
worker 2 says if he had os/2 he wouldn't have these problems.  something to get
the word out to the general public (and business owners) that p/c crashes were due
to microsoft windows and their poor use of memory.

but what was ibm's goal for os/2?  were they trying to get into the business
market, or capture the kid's market?  were they trying to oust microsoft as the
distributed p/c operating system?

there was an article in usa today when bill gates was in hot water a year or so
ago, explaining what the problems were.  it said that microsoft's profit margin
was 40%, twice the industry average.  and the public was being harmed because
windows had such a lock on the industry that microsoft does not have incentive to
fix their problems.  so everyone suffers from their sloppiness.

usa today is a widely read newspaper, but i would imagine that most p/c users did
not see or read the article, or if they did, did not understand the implications.

nj

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