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Brian, IBM and Apple corporate cultures are actually becoming quite similar. I agree, simple survival dictates the merger of both. And I think tha that will happen, to the detriment of Apple. I think the Mac OS will become a division of IBM to serve the graphics arts world (which by the way is _huge_ and still really untapped by even Apple). OS/2 (or whatever) will acquire the rest of the attributes of the Mac user interface, which, aside fromt NeXT, is the best user interface on the planet. I follow your points re corporations not switching to OS/2, but the cost is really not the issue. OS/2 can be had for about the same as a Windows upgrade. And right now, OS/2 runs Windows better than Windows itself! What I really can't understand is IBM's not getting developer tools into the hands of everyone they could think of – and for free. Not only have OS/2 tools been hard to come by – they they have been almost twice as expensive as Microsoft's. Rich