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From: bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch)
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Subject: PC-WEEK Article / OS-2 Obituary?
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Date: 11 Jun 89 17:41:56 GMT
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From Ted Holden, HTE:

Did anybody notice the article on page 81 of the May 22 issue of PC Week?
I've been telling people that OS-2 wasn't going to make it for three years
now, but I've only begun to believe it myself in the last year;  the 
rationale is sufficient, lack of portability, lack of connectivity, bugs
etc., but rationality doesn't always triumph in the face of IBM media
blitzes and hype.  In particular, the squirrel mags have been hyping OS-2
to the four winds and the mountain tops for three years, and the PC-WEEK
article is the first thing in print that I've seen which appears to say
anything different.  Unless I'm reading it wrong somehow or other, it's
saying that by 1993, Unix will be doing more than double the business
of OS-2 like, basically, hey the game's over; Unix is going to win and
OS-2 is going to lose, simple as that.  

Ted Holden
HTE