A little OS/2 experience with IBM Marketing... Back in '94-'95 we spent over $500K to port a major Public Safety system from CICS MVS to CICS OS/2. The port was very successful. But, when we went into a major presentation to demonstrate our offering, the new 90-Day-Wonder IBM Public Safety "Expert" blew us out of the water. All throughout the demo he used an IBM laptop running Windows 98 and stated that his group was more familiar with Windows rather than OS/2. He also stated he had no problem recommending a Microsoft based solution versus and IBM based solution. We couldn't believe it!
In the days after this disaster, we were getting feedback from the attendees with a common theme, "If IBM has so little faith in their own offering, why should we go out on a limb and use it?" -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Support is ending for Windows XP - Microsoft Windows Agreed! <snip> Too bad IBM dumped OS/2. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
