Re: The Future of IBM ..

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

No question you are correct about Microsoft's business practices being 
suspect.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 7/1/2013 10:07 AM, Jon Paris wrote:
> Not disputing the truth of many aspects of these comments - but there were a lot of ethically dubious practices on MS' behalf as well that went into the eventual demise of OS/2. DevKit issues could have been resolved - even marketing was beginning to show some progress.
>
> Sad - it wasn't until more than 5 years later that I finally got a Windows PC with an operating system that even came close to the stability of OS/2.
>
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> On 2013-07-01, at 10:44 AM, Jim Oberholtzer<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
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> > >  Exactly!  OS/2 was so superior that it would have easily have won the
> > >  battle, except for what Dan just pointed out.
> > >  
> > >  Jim Oberholtzer
> > >  Chief Technical Architect
> > >  Agile Technology Architects
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  On 7/1/2013 9:16 AM, Dan Kimmel wrote:
> > > >>  The real reason Windows succeeded and OS/2 didn't: Microsoft gave their devkit away, IBM wanted something like $6000 for theirs.
> > >  --