OS/2 was, and still is, a superior Operating System, so far above Windows. But IBM bigshots didn't have the backbones to fight for it.
They thought they could make it with "global consulting," but seriously, who is going to pay $300-500 per hour for IBM "experts?" Only fools, and they don't stay in business for long.
Surrender is NEVER the answer. But that's what IBM did.
IBM execs betrayed their most loyal partners, users and customers, all because the media liked Bill Gates better. The media swallowed all Gates' balderdash. He knew how to manage the media and the media responded.
Come to think of it, Republican Party bigshots are doing the very same thing, aren't they? Surrendering their principles to please the media.
Was an IBM employee when this was happening. Talk about frustrating even us low peons could see the mistakes that mgt was making. Main frame people who ran IBM in the 90's never understood the PC or PC OS's. There is an arrogance to main frame people that is UFB.
Ah, OS/2... I knew it well. We used to say that Microsoft was a marketing company that didn’t know how to develop software and IBM was a software development company that didn’t know how to market. Get Warped! Sheees..