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Re: IBM's OS?
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:40:44 -0500 (EST), claribba wrote:
>
>Does anyone know why IBM machines [Aptiva & Think Pad} are being sold "off
>the shelf" with Win95 exclusively and not OS/2 Warp?
>
>Is this because of some prior legal judgement?
The short answer is that IBM's marketing and management are in
dire need of a clue. There's absolutely no company in existence today
with the ability to develop computer technology as well as IBM, the
problem is that as good as IBM's R&D divisions are their marketing
people couldn't sell central air in hell. IBM doesn't have the stomach
for the consumer market so they've decided that OS/2 should only be
used in a 'Fortune 500' environment...a very poor decision IMO.
But no matter how many times you've read it OS/2 is NOT dead.
After all these years OS/2 is still superior to anything M$ has
released, and from what I've seen coming out of Redmond I expect it to
be for a long time. Hell, the mere fact that it's been around as long
as it has in spite of IBM's pathetic marketing says something in and of
itself.
...Cheers,
...Norm
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