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- From: john.navas@uttsbbs.uucp (John Navas)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: RE: NEW PRODUCT: WHICH ON
- Message-ID: <4196.18.uupcb@uttsbbs.uucp>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 23:37:00 GMT
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- Reply-To: john.navas@uttsbbs.uucp (John Navas)
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- brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
-
- > WHICH PLATFORM IS TECHNICALLY BETTER?
- > This one's easy, NT wins hands down.
-
- With all due respect, I disagree. Both OS/2 and NT have strengths and
- weaknesses. Nevertheless, the fact that OS/2 will run faster and in
- far less memory is a substantial technical advantage.
-
- > Stability is another important issue. OS/2 2.0 GA is not very
- > stable. ... IBM released a service pack for OS/2 2.0, but
- > unfortunately it too has stability problems.
-
- Again, with all due respect I disagree. My clients and I have found
- GA + SP to be extremely stable.
-
- RE: Support
-
- > In general I prefer the Microsoft approach... rarely do I not find
- > what I needed, but this is largely a personal preference, the two
- > are largely equal. Note that this is a recent development in IBM
- > -- when I started developing for OS/2 in February of last year,
- > their support was a nightmare.
-
- And finally, while I agree that IBM support used to be poor, I
- personally find the current level of support from IBM to be much
- better than Microsoft. IBM seems to want YOU to suceed; Microsoft
- seems to want IT to succeed. In my book that's a BIG difference.
-
- Best regards,
- John
-
- p.s. Another important technical advantage for OS/2 is that it does
- a significantly better job of running DOS and Win16 applications.
-
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