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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: os2 support
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.182049.18490@microsoft.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 18:20:49 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <ZH5gPB2w165w@halcyon.com>
- Keywords: os2 ms
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- In article <ZH5gPB2w165w@halcyon.com> CSYSPCN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU writes:
- >The question which has been sticking out in my mind in reading alot of
- >the threads has been:
- > Why did MS cut off support for OS/2 2.0?
- >
- > a. Could it be that IBM cut of MS from the source code making it
- >difficult to support a product?
- >
- > b. Or could it be that MS is trying to undermine IBM and OS/2?
- >
- >IMEHO I believe that A. would be more likely. It is amazing to believ
- >that for a group to be developing a product for more than five years that
- >it would all of a sudden turn into "That's IBM's product not our type
- >stuff".
-
- I don't think it's A. I don't think it's B either. In my
- opinion (which is not particularly well-informed on this subject
- since I wasn't involved in the OS/2 project when it was here), MS
- dropped OS/2 because they realized it wouldn't be profitable.
- That is ultimately the bottom line - it could be the niftiest
- operating system ever, but if IBM isn't making money on it, then
- eventually their stockholders are going to question their business
- practices. (Of course, IBM is large enough that it could take a
- several million dollar loss and just shrug it off. MS would
- take such a loss a _lot_ more difficultly.)
-
-
- > The other bone I have to pick with some of the posts I have read deal
- >w/direct attacks on the MS employees who post on this conference. I have
- >seen their replys go from trying to clear up mis-concepts about a product
- >to picking apart an argument and calling people foolish and misinformed.
- >If you do not like features in their product, fine there is a way to go
- >express which features you do not like. Do not say the whole package is
- >a dog just because you do not like certain aspects of it.
-
- I think I can speak for the rest of the MS employees on this
- group when I say "If I couldn't take the heat, I wouldn't be in
- the kitchen." People can flame away all they like - in general,
- those people come out looking like bigger asses than the one's
- they were flaming.
-
- -Phil
-
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- Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
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