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Subject: [OM] OS/2 vs. OM marketing
From: Joseph <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 02:54:50 -0800 (PST)
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OS/2 isn't dead yet - IBM still releases fixpacks/updates on v4, and
rumors circulate about a version 5.

That said, I'm fairly certain IBM and Olympus have the same marketing
team. 
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major differences.  Olympus dropped trying to compete with OM altogether.
IBM dropped trying to market Os/2 to individuals when v. 3.0 came out.
they continued to market it to business customers, many of whom use
OS/2 because its maintenance costs is about half the cost of maintaining
microsoft stuff.  But the server market for OS/2 is pretty dead, largely
taken over by Linux these days. 

about half of the worlds bank ATM machines run OS/2 internally as their
OS, so there are plenty of machines running Os/2 out there.  this would
be impossible with a microsoft Os since you cannot really replace the
graphical shell tool.

Joseph



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