[Am-info] IBM - AIX - SCO - FUD.

[Marcus de Geus]

In reply to a message from <am-info-request@lists.essential.org> dated 2003=
-06-25 12:00:01 -0400 (Wed):

> > >IBM will continue to ship, support and develop AIX...
> ...
> > >Too bad IBM didn't stand up to microsoft when they pulled similar FUD
> > >against OS/2.
> ...
> I wouldn't assume that just because IBM says it "will stand behind our
> products and our customers," that it will really do so. IBM executives
> are proven cowards. They dumped their most technically advanced product
> (OS/2) and betrayed their most loyal customers when Microsoft played a
> little hardball. 

True, but then AIX must be a goldmine many times over (is there such a thin=
g?) to IBM, whereas OS/2 -- especially after Warp hit the streets -- proved=
 to be a very costly beast in terms of end user support. IBM's fault, of co=
urse, but by then the damage had been done.

BTW: no flames please. I am still going for an entry in the Guinness Book o=
f Records as The Computer User Who Has Never Owned a Windows Box. My deskto=
p OS is not Linux, nor am I running an Apple (yet?), and my CP/M and PC-DOS=
/DesqView days are long past. You can work out the rest for yourselves.

Best regards,

Marcus de Geus
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