On February 13, 2009 10:11:58 pm jfweber@gilweber.com wrote:
From one who began gui computing w/ Os/2 and was ( still am) desolate to see it go. Of course the shoe salesman who promised us that he would keep OS/2 going ( and who promptly dumped it as fast as he could do.) Silly man didn't understand IBM's reasoning when he took over.. think he lasted maybe a year possibly 2. I think that dumping OS/2 was the 1st time IBM had dropped a system for whom they still had ( commercial) customers .
Obviously those of us who had small businesses were unlikely to ever spend enough green to make it practical, there were a huge number of banks, a couple of Wall Street firms, and several hospitals and other big money businesses .
A couple of years ago, when I was a Director for mid-size Credit Union, I was at a conference where IBM was pushing their latest and greatest ATM. I told them after my experience with OS/2, I had no confidence in their willingness to support customers longterm. I did really like OS/2, too. -- Robert (Bob) Smits bob@rsmits.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org