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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!cci632!rom
- From: rom@cci632.cci.com (Rudynell S. Millian)
- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.135113.12208@cci632.cci.com>
- Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
- Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY
- References: <1993Jan20.163847.26969@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:51:13 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1993Jan20.163847.26969@cbfsb.cb.att.com> feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke) writes:
- >PC Week for January 18th has an interview with Bill Gates.
- >I quote the relevant item:
- >
- >PC Week: Your feeling is that OS/2 is a dead-end platform?
- >
- >Gates: It's certainly a dead end. That's indisputable.
- >Nobody would dispute that it's a dead end.
- >
- >
- >So, are we all working with a dead end? Are we just
- >whistling while passing the graveyard before
- >Microsoft unloads NT around May of this year?
- >
- >
- >Forrest Gehrke feg\@dodger.att.com
- >
- >
-
- I wouldn't worry about OS/2 being a dead end. Unlike MS, IBM has not
- waivered on its support of OS/2. OS/2 has been around, in some form or another,
- almost as long as Windows has, and IBM's commitment to this product is rock
- solid, despite OS/2 lack of popular support! And IBM has mad it clear where
- it is taking OS/2. If anything I would be worried about MS's NT being a dead
- end.
- It is clear that for Microsoft the ONLY thing that counts is making a
- profit. There is nothing wrong with making a profit, but the way I see it, the
- computer industry should have a more noble goal than that. If NT shows any
- signs of weakness profit wise, you can be assured that Bill Gates will put it
- to sleep ( just like he tried, is trying, to do to OS/2 ).
-
-
- Unfortunately Bill Gates has obtained tabloid status, and is currently
- the person the general public thinks of when it hears about the computer
- industry. If Mr Gates wants to hurt OS/2, this is the perfect time to do it,
- and he knows it.
-