----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert C Wittig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] MICROSOFT & NOVELL LINUX to work together!
> Norm Higgs wrote:
> > I seem to remember a similar joint agreement with IBM regarding
> > OS/2....anyone recall how that went?
> >
> > Basically the partership broke up while MS was developing the code
for
> > the latest version - "NT OS/2 3.0", which never hit the market, at
> > least not under that name. It was renamed Windows NT, which has
since
> > morphed into Windows XP, while the IBM OS/2 languished and died a
slow
> > death.
> >
>
> I'm still running OS/2 Warp 4 ...basically as a nostalgia toy... but
> OS/2 server is still selling on eBay, and closing at around $100.00
per
> copy.
>From what I have read, its actually a good OS, just never got any
mainstream exposure. The MS split didn't help things, particularly since
they took the best version of it and left IBM out in the cold, so to
speak. Of course IBM deserves some blame as well, for stubbornly
refusing to drop support for the 16 bit 80286 CPU's, when the industry
was clearly moving away from them very quickly.
IBM often seems to cut off their nose to spite their face.
> > Given MicroSofts history, I would say Novell is in trouble.
> >
>
> So would I.
Be afraid, Novell, be very afraid...
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