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From: brian@NCoast.ORG (Brian Keith Gaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Is OS/2 dead?  *** No Way ***
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.081651.20886@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 2 Feb 91 08:16:51 GMT
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In article <4993@lure.latrobe.edu.au> CCMK@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Mark Kosten - Computer Centre, La Trobe Uni.) writes:
>eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>>My local all-news station just carried an announcement from Microsoft that it
>>is terminating its OS/2 development program in order to concentrate on its
>>Windows product.
>>
>>No details or followup were added.  However, several things are instantly
>>obvious.
>>
>>One is that OS/2 is now effectively dead.  Sure, IBM is still working on it ---
       I'm from an IBM mainframe environment.  All major Enterprise Wide 
       IBM strategy is based on OS/2.  
   
           - System View 
           - Office Vision 
           - Easel 
           - CICS OS/2 
           - Imaging 

             etc.   IBM has now taken the last part of DEVELOPMENT from 
                    microsoft. 


        
 also :  

>I'm not a Wall Street Journal guy.  What section, what page?
>Can they be serious? (Microsoft, that is)
>
>Have they conceded to the DOS users who don't know HOW to multitask
>the UNIX users who can already do it and don't want to change, and the
>mainframers who would like to keep their jobs?
>
>What about the small companies who, courted by Microsoft to develop for
>OS/2, are left holding (semi)dead products?  Will they be satisfied
>by crippling their products for Windows?
>
>Please take no offense at the above statements, they are not intended
>to provoke.
>
>Any comments?
>
 

  Just a few comments here.... 

   I'm not a WSJ guy either but I'll bet the TECHNICAL staff at the 
   
   WSJ really researched this one !  ;-) 
 
   
   I have a nice rebuttal from the Gartner Group (paid service that monitors
   
   many aspects of computing vendors)  Gartner says that this announcement 
 
   was a "missinterpretation" and a bad "rumore".  They went on to say that 

   "... OS/2 is not dead...".   


    I have even heard that there was a follow-up article in WSJ the next
   
    day that blew the first one away.   


     Just a note to the guys at WSJ with the neck ties that are on a 
  
     little too tight:  loosen up, watch how your article headings read, 

     leave the tech writting to PC Magazine (focus on stocks guys!), 
 
     and remember,  if articles like this keep up , it won't be OS/2 that
 
     gets SCRAPPED ! 

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