[Am-info] Look out IBM, MS is after your Linux

[Hans Reiser]

John J. Urbaniak wrote:

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>Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>John J. Urbaniak wrote:
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>>>No, Gerstner made the final decision.  He said "The desktop war is over."
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>>>John
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>>By the time he did, it probably was over.....  but before him, the loss
>>was contributed to by persons lower down the chain.
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>Not at all.  There was hope.  There still is hope.  I have a very tiny
>company.  Our marketing budget runs into the tens of dollars.
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>Yet, in the last three months, I have been able to sell my eCS (OS/2 +) -
>based software to three companies who were not currently using OS/2.  I have
>several more close sales pending.
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>If I can do it, IBM could have done it and still could do it.  The world is
>crying for alternatives to Microsoft.  There are billions of PC users and
>billions of dollars to be made selling good Operating Systems and good PC
>software.  There is no excuse for Gerstner's actions.  There is no business
>case for his cowardice.
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>John
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>>Hans
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There was no business case for it at first, but there was at the end. 
 OS/2 is dead.  Linux is much more viable for IBM.  IBM is wise to focus 
on Linux, and your company should also.  When a project like OS/2 fails, 
a lot of people get hurt by it.  It is important to know when a war is 
lost.  OS/2 was a better OS than Windows, but OS/2 is a lost war.

Hans