On 14Mar26:1105-0500, Dan Skomsky wrote: > 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.
Well, I think everyone's forgeting IBM never had exclusive ownership of everything OS/2--that explains a lot in my mind. -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
