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alexander m nolasco (anol...@solix.fiu.edu) wrote:
: : What's OS/2 and OS/Warp's major problem.  Not enough development for their
: : OS.  IBM should have really pushed some game and app company's to create
: : some software for it, or be really innovative, like microsoft, and produce
: : their own damned software for it.

: I second that, but rembember  that IBM does create appss and push 
: developers to use their tools.  The problem is, how many out there want 
: to learn SmallTalk????
: Or buy a quite expensive compiler that targets IBM stuff only?
: I might be wrong or not professional enough to come up with this 
: conclusion.  

: Had DOOM been created for OS/2 first.. then we would have a different 
: picture now..

Hardly.  DOOM is not what made the MS-DOS platform the dominant player
that it is today.  Aggressive marketing tactics on Microsoft's behalf is
to blame.  Everyone hates Microsoftn these days, but face it:  they earned
their place on top of the hill by out-performing every other software
company in virtually every aspect of the software industry.

Oh, and don't forget that IBM is notorious for being really stupid when it
comes to business decisions for the past several years.  Buying Lotus may
be the first thing they've done right in the '90s.
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