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http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1508584,00.html

>Should IBM consider a return of OS/2?
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>A systems integrator close to the computing giant swears there's a move >afoot inside IBM to reintroduce the operating system -- revered by >some, reviled by many --before it faded out more than 10 years ago. He >has heard this from inside Big Blue itself.
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>Interested constituencies would include "AS/400, and S390 users that >love OS/2 Communications Manager, SNA [Systems Network Architecture] >and newer LU/PU-style connectivity, even some on isolated APIPA >[Automatic Private IP Addressing] subnets," the integrator said.



Has this "integrator" just woken from a 14 year coma?
:)


-gerald



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