Funny how things go - when OS/2 WARP was first announced and while it was still in existence PTG (prior to Gerstner), I always regretted not having a chance to learn about it and work with it. I see I needn't have worried ...
... yeah, I know, you can't play with everything ... but it always seems, in my career, that I'm over here when I need to be over there ... ... I always thought that OS/2 WARP was the best chance anyone had of overtaking Windows (Linux was kind of nascent then), and when I read that IBM was being backward about disclosing internals to developers to build things like device drivers (in complete contrast to Microsoft (Jerry Pournelle even wrote about this in a "Chaos Manor" column in Byte years ago (remember Byte?))), I thought, well, they haven't learned anything from Micro-Channel architecture or other closed proprietary endeavors, but when I read about Lou G "ceding" the desktop battles to Microsoft, you have to ask, why did they even bother showing up for the game if they weren't going to play to win? Sigh ... I heard that OS/2 WARP was pretty slick ... seems like it should have been worth saving and remarketing. Imagine if OS/2 had been ported to run under VM, even to RS6K or AS/400. Now you'd have a common software architecture across all platforms. Seems like that should be a Good Thing. Now Linux is doing that in 2005, when IBM could have done it in 1995. I simply don't understand; someone help me ... Oh well ... another one bytes the dust ... Regards, Bill Stephens Sr. Technology Analyst, High Availability SunGard Availability Services 10th floor 401 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19108 Phone: (215) 351-1099 Fax: (215) 451-2045 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________ Keeping People and Information Connected (TM) http://www.availability.sungard.com Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED] iscity.com> To Sent by: VM/ESA [email protected] and z/VM cc Discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .UARK.EDU> OS/2 RIP 12/23/2005 11:12 AM Please respond to VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .UARK.EDU> Many thought that it died a long time ago... "OS/2 is finally being withdrawn on December 23, 2005. According to the IBM Web site on OS/2 Warp migration (see Resources), there is no replacement product from IBM. IBM suggests that OS/2 customers consider Linux." I was initially trained on OS/2 and DB2 on OS/2 1.3 DBE (Data Base Edition) on a 286 processor. Things have certainly come a long way. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
