#Scala Saves Time
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Robb,
Please understand that I have no personal stake in the failure of OS/2.
If *I* am wrong about its lack of a future, I will NOT be upset. I believe that
the market NEEDS alternatives to Micros**t's visionless products.
I just don't *personally* believe IBM can pull it off with OS/2. If they do,
terrific!
Tab Trepagnier
Cruising on AutoPilot from Beaumont, Texas
I didn't figure you had anything against OS/2 succeeding, but I just
have a different perspective.
Our corporation (I'm not speaking for them, but I do work for
Seafirst Bank a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of America) has a
distributed computing architecture standard that is all MS NTAS and
Win3.1 and WFW and since that has been established I have seen zero
NTAS servers go into production and alot of OS/2 DB/2 type servers as
well as hundreds of OS/2 workstations. The OS/2 platforms are being
used to solve problems and all our other several hundreds of Windows
boxes are going in just to 'go in' and not a single NT server has
been deployed, yet.
It's just kinda funny that people want to use MicroS**t products (and
we do alot for productive work) just because they are MS and they are
trying to invent solutions with them. The actual solutions based
implementations are going OS/2.
Robb,
I salute your company's success, but our company (a $6 Billion electric
utility), is just the opposite. We are phasing out the few OS/2 apps we have in
favor or NTAS or Unix. We are currently using Windows 3.1 and Application
Manager on the desktop, but that will migrate to WFW this year, with NTWS
available for "power users." Our corporate direction is for OS/2 to have no
presence by the end of 1995.
For personal use, I just don't see OS/2 going anywhere. Yeah, I know
the latest versions are a lot better than previous versions, and
sales are up. But for IBM to rave about market share half that of
Apple is significant in itself. Even that wouldn't be so bad; after
all, I am an Amiga user. But I see OS/2 as an island with little to
recommend living there.
Thanks for your insights.
Tab Trepagnier
Cruising on AutoPilot from Beaumont, Texas