Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 15:37:00 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: "Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley Message-ID: <354E430C.5BA72E5A@san.rr.com> References: <199805041153.GAA07744@nospam.hiwaay.net> <xzp4sz6dtt4.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > > David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> writes: > > I've been thinking that considering Netscape's release of their browser > > source code that maybe it would be a good idea for IBM to do the same > > with OS/2. IBM can't be collecting very much money selling OS/2. Well, > > at least not much in IBM scale. > > You might be surprised. > > The reason why you're not seeing OS/2 very much any more is that IBM > is no longer marketing it as an end-user OS, which does not mean that > they're not making any money selling it. OS/2 actually has a very lively existence in the server market (especially where multiple networking architectures have to coexist), lotus notes market and perhaps more importantly; almost all ATM's run OS/2 as well as the vast majority of Point of Sale systems (those little scanners of UPC codes at the supermarket, et al). OS/2 is far and away the best desktop OS available, combining the power of unix and tremendous ease of use. Tragically IBM can't market their way out of a paper bag and microsoft's purposeful scrambling of the win32 API to prevent the possibility of emulators (including and especially OS/2 since it's always been the best) has doomed OS/2 in the desktop market. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the messagehome | help
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