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IBM's OS/2 Strategy for 2003

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-dead-yet dept.

Landreth writes "OS2World.com reports that IBM has released their OS/2 strategy for 2003. They appear to be pushing the WebSphere Software Platform as well as client and server upgrades to Warp 4. The report can be viewed at IBM's website."

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  1. RIP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Funny that an OS which /. has been reporting as being dead for years is apparently still being updated.

    -t

  2. Re:who honestly cares by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then again... For IBM keeping it's customers happy is the most important thing of all. Regardless of if that means supporting OS/2 or any other legacy platform.

    Beta was better technology, but somehow we all got stuck with VHS... Superior technology can't always win.

    Granted, OS/2 is a different story. But in both cases it's about earning ones salary... which is always done by keeping the customers happy.

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  3. Re:So why use OS/2? by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Maybe they just like it better. You know, the way it works. The GUI. etc.

    Where did this crap come in choice is a bad thing? EVERY time someone mentions a new OS, or in this case a resuccitated old one, the same old "Why do this, when Linux does blah blah blah and Windows does narf narf narf" arguments come up.

    Notice how nobody ever protests when GM or Ford comes up with another car. "But why get this 'Grand Marquis' thing when a Sable can already get you from A to B in comfort."

    But choice in OSes. Oh no, that's terrible! We must consider that evil!

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  4. Re:who honestly cares by reallocate · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >> No one has really used OS/2 since 1995...the install (sic) base...

    You contradict yourself.

    >> ...negating a reason for OS/2 to even exist.
    Operating systems aren't academic exercises. Capabilities that you won't use waste your money, no matter how "modern" the OS. Presumably, institutions with an investment in OS/2 think it makes good business sense to stay with it.

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  5. Re:who honestly cares by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 3, Insightful
    No one has really used OS/2 since 1995.

    Actually, it runs large numbers of ATM machines. Strange but true.

  6. Re:Getting OS/2 by Micah · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have a copy of Warp 4 and Visual Age C++ for OS/2 that I'll almost certainly never use again. Would be willing to sell for cheap+shipping.

    I loved OS/2, but it is what helped convince me that Free Software is SO important. I put quite a bit of effort into learning OS/2, hoping it would take off, and learned a lesson when IBM stopped pushing it. You just can't put much hope in non Free software! Linux is, fortunately, immune to being ignored by its manufacturer the way OS/2 (and BeOS) was.