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QCumber

4 Nov 2003, 5:27pm

...and with IBM's blessing, no less:

http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5101680.html?tag=nefd_lede

You gotta wonder if Steve Ballmer is perspiring heavily this morning... :)

primesuspect

4 Nov 2003, 8:08pm

Happy Birthday, AND welcome to the forums, QCumber.... ;)

SimGuy

4 Nov 2003, 8:21pm

Don't forget that MS screwed with IBM on the OS/2 operating system.

Old grudges die hard in the computer business...

Thrax

4 Nov 2003, 8:45pm

IBM screwed itself with OS/2. IBM made an entire open source computer initiative, backed out, and expected everyone to follow them on OS/2. Oops.

SimGuy

4 Nov 2003, 8:54pm

http://www.millennium-technology.com/HistoryOfOS2.html

1990 - The Schism

In 1990, IBM and Microsoft were still working together on the development of OS/2. Microsoft, however, had found that Windows 3.0 - released in May 1990 - generated more revenue for them and therefore allotted increasingly more resource to Windows and correspondingly less to OS/2.

By late 1990, Microsoft had intensified its disagreements with IBM to the point where IBM decided that it would have to take some overt action to ensure that OS/2 development continued at a reasonable pace. IBM, therefore, took over complete development responsibility for OS/2 1.x, even though it was in its dying days, and OS/2 2.00. Microsoft would continue development on Windows and OS/2 3.00. Shortly after this split, Microsoft renamed OS/2 V3 to Windows NT.

MS did play a large role in turfing OS/2 out the window, but IBM was the final nail in the coffin. :D

t1rhino

4 Nov 2003, 11:28pm

Good news. That's why Novell's stock jumped 32% today on the NYSE.

flamingpeach

6 Nov 2003, 7:43pm

I have a lot of respect for novell, I really think they can take SUSE places.

It'll be interesting to see what will be happening with it by this time next year.

:)

primesuspect

6 Nov 2003, 7:59pm

Welcome to the forums, flamingpeach... What a creepy avatar, though! ;D

t1rhino

6 Nov 2003, 8:14pm

Where in Canadia are you? :D

flamingpeach

6 Nov 2003, 8:26pm

Thanks for the welcome guys. :)

I <3 my avatar. :o

t1rhino had this to say
Where in Canadia are you? :D

t1rhino, I'm in London, Ontario.