Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!interlan.InterLan.COM!interlan.interlan.com!towfiq From: towfiq@FTP.COM (Mark Towfiq) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: OS/2 or Windows: which to develop for? Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 19:21:16 GMT References: <1991Feb14.120802.3737@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Sender: news@interlan.Interlan.COM (No News is BAD News) Reply-To: towfiq@FTP.COM Organization: FTP Software, Inc., Wakefield, MA Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: drz@csri.toronto.edu's message of 14 Feb 91 17:08:03 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: ftp.com In article <1991Feb14.120802.3737@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> drz@csri.toronto.edu (Jerry Zarycky) writes: Now that the fallout from the Wall Street Journal article has spread, the "management" types choose to ignore the seminar that Microsoft had the next day. Management is demanding that our software be ported from OS/2 to Windows because they think that our customers will be demanding Windows programs. Argh! Now to port from a pre-emptive multitasking system to one that isn't will pose us a few problems. And then to wait for the 32-bit version of Windows to come out while 32-bit OS/2 2.0 is supposedly around the corner doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Is anyone else struggling with this kind of question, and if so, what are you considering to do? We are definitely grappling with this, as we were about to embark on a slew of PM-based applications. Now we are wondering how to prevent wasting thousands of man-hours on dead-end code. Speaking of which, does anyone out there have info on XVT, the portability library that allows you to have the same source code for PM, Windows, and X? -- Mark Towfiq, FTP Software, Inc. towfiq@FTP.COM Work No.: +1 617 246 0900 Home No.: +1 617 488 2818 "The Earth is but One Country, and Mankind its Citizens" -- Baha'u'llah