That’s anecdotal...besides, all new systems have *some* issues at integration. And all new systems will have a few places where they either can’t be made to work, or will create an obvious opportunity for a good competitor to step in and fix it with their stuff.
All I am saying is that mainframe integration was absolutely *not* the core problem that doomed OS/2. They had Communication Manager/2 (a high performance SNA stack) and DB2/2 (a horribly named OS/2 version of DB2) and a “host” (hahaha) of other mainframe era apps ported to OS/2 and keeping a high percentage of their big iron customers (like Ford, Fireman’s Fund, and others) happy from the beginning.
What doomed OS/2 was the absolutely retarded decision to design it for the 286 processor using the 286’s “protected mode” for OS/2 and then resetting the processor into real mode on the fly to run legacy programs in the single “Dos box.”
Then what followed during the divorce from Microsoft were a cascade of retarded decisions made by really bad IBM management.
I was at Common in Nashville last week and all the old IBM internal political BS was on display.
The WASCE is a great product but the boys in Rochester cannot leave well enough alone and are doing a whole new server!!
They renamed the AS/400 - or what ever you refer to it - to just simply “i”!!! Great concept in a “google” world. NOT.
Finally are charging the same price for identical server components that they charge to users of AIX.
There is a major war over dev tools and software server products. Rational seems to be winning the wars taking over what looks like all development products and websphere “family” is secure. But Notes family and eclipse look threatened. Missing was a good RAD tool.
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That’s anecdotal”
Not just anecdotal. There is and was tremendous infighting at IBM. I was at Santa Teresa and Toronto and Hursely. This was WAR.
Have you ever seen FRED? Do you know what it is?