From: Mark Bell (bytehead_at_bellatlantic.net)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 13:33:21 EDT
Suffice it to say that the market momentum and any future,
potential, meaningful growth is absolutely and clearly not in
OS/2's favor nor corner. Expect it to have it's tiny marketshare
and appeal to a certain segment of the industry and that's
about it. :) It's not dead, but to say it's lacking the zest
needed to dominate the marketplace is an understatement. Of course
there will continue to be fans and actual, meaningful users though...
...of course this applies to the Amiga and Macintosh too! >;-P
At 04:29 PM 04/05/2000 -0500, sehh of H.I.C. & D.B.S. wrote:
>On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 09:14:50 -0400, STeve Andre' wrote:
>
>>I'm impressed that you were able to get a fix out of them for OS/2, but
>>don't expect
>>it to happen often in the future.
>
>i was quite impressed my self!
>
>>I suppose IBM is stuck doing some supporting of OS/2 still, for any
government
>>contracts they have that used it. If I'm not mistaken, they'll have to
>>support it for
>>10 years I think, after some point of stopping selling it (or something
>>like that).
>
>Actualy IBM has a commitment for the next 7 years. Then they will either
>review it and continue or drop os/2.
>
>>At this point I wouldn't do anything new with OS/2. There are too many
>>neat and
>>free alternatives (OpenBSD, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, ...) which are
ultimately
>>more powerful--and have a greater population of folks who can do things
>>with it.
>
>Now you are wrong :) first, IBM wouldn't just drop OS/2, if they did they
would
>have an alternative, like an OS/2 emulator for AIX or something like that.
Second
>OS/2 is dead, long live OS/2, yes we've been hearing this for many years but
>OS/2 is still here as always.
>
>OS/2 is not as dead as you think. Maybe IBM doesn't seem to give any real
support
>but thats not entirely true. Actualy IBM doesn't give any
PR/advertisements about
>OS/2 any more since they don't think OS/2 will sell that way. Suppost
exists, we've
>been having new fixpacks every 2-3 months, plus the new OS/2 Warp Server
for e-business
>and the upcomming OS/2 Warp 5 client thats on beta testing as we speak.
>
>No, OS/2 is far from dead.
>
>PS:
>OS/2 is as powerful as any unix system, or more, in my oppinion.
>
>þ H.I.C. & D.B.S. þ OS/2 Warp þ Hellas þ
>þ ServerConfig þ ConfigEdit þ OS/2 UK UG þ
>
>
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