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- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!mars.caps.maine.edu!maine.maine.edu!andy
- Organization: University of Maine System
- Date: Thursday, 30 Jul 1992 11:25:11 EDT
- From: Andrew T. Robinson <ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Message-ID: <92212.112511ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Why we shouldn't bash MS Employees (and other thoughts)
- References: <76507@ut-emx.uucp> <5ljml--.xtifr@netcom.com>
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- >4) It's only an OS guys, this isn't a religious issue.
-
- Well, it becomes religious to me when I invest my company's money--at
- this time to move to OS/2--in an environment where my choice may make
- me smell like roses or excrement in less than a year.
-
- I find OS/2 to be conceptually superior to Windows or Windows NT.
- However, if there was an alternative in the price range I'd take it.
- I'm sick of the infighting between IBM and Microsoft. I tend to
- blame Microsoft more than IBM because I have a long happy history
- with Big Blue (well, maybe not all happy :-). But the fact is, both
- IBM and Microsoft are actively participating in the generation of
- an extremely unstable high-end OS market, in which the wrong descision
- could cost a lot of money in the next year or so.
-
- Rather than railing at IBM or Microsoft, I'll ask them to stop the breast-
- beating and merge the NT/OS-2 streams before one or both really screw over
- their adherents. And someday pigs may fly out my.....
-
- Andy
-
- PS -- Windows NT is a dung heap. Through it out before it stinks
- up the place any further.
-
- PPS -- The preceding was a gratuitous inflamatory statement, and does
- not necessarily refelct the opinions of the author.
-