Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!frisbee.Eng.Sun.COM!jcb From: jcb@frisbee.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead? Message-ID: <5150@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 3 Jan 91 01:42:37 GMT References: <4036@dah.sub.org> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 42 ed@dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten) writes: In article pete@csc-sun.mckinsey.com (Peter Gaston) writes: >Ok, there's been lots of religious ramblings against OS/2. Personally >I feel that most people aren't keen for IBM for whatever reason. >What I'd like to know, does anyone have a fact base pro/con for >OS/2, esp. w/ regard to it's prime competitor, Unix (and future >derivatives). I don't think OS/2's prime competitor is Unix, but rather Windows 3.0 and its successor... ;-) Windows 3.0 runs along with OS/2, so I don't see how they can compete. I also don't see how UnixWorld (Current) and the New York Times (Sept24th) can show Windows competing against DOS and OS/2 for market share, but who am I to question journalists.. :-) (this is from elsewhere) >PCs have survived rather well along with the rest of the world. In >fact, the latest stats and projections (Sept 24, 1990 issue of New >York Times) show operating system market share as: >Year DOS UNIX Windows OS/2 >1987 88.2 2.6 2.3 0.3 >1989 75.0 2.3 14.5 1.7 >1994 43.2 7.6 28.7 13.5 It seems that OS/2 is going to be positioned against Unix, and it's odds of success are probably increasing as time goes on. (Personal opinion.) -Jim Becker -- -- Jim Becker / jcb%frisbee@sun.com / Sun Microsystems