Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 11:11:34 -0400 From: kriston@ibm.net (Kriston J. Rehberg) To: FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley Message-ID: <3105-Mon04May1998111134-0400-kriston@ibm.net> In-Reply-To: <199805041153.GAA07744@nospam.hiwaay.net> References: <advocacy@saten.dyn.ml.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504010042.465A-100000@saten.dyn.ml.org> <199805041153.GAA07744@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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David Kelly writes: > >I've been thinking that considering Netscape's release of their browser >source code that maybe it would be a good idea for IBM to do the same >with OS/2. IBM can't be collecting very much money selling OS/2. Well, >at least not much in IBM scale. That's a great idea, but IBM positions OS/2 as a sort of "replacement" for Windows NT and Novell servers. When I used to use OS/2 a lot (just before Windows 95 came out) I would get catalogs from IBM that promoted the OS/2 Warp Server, which provides directory replication (to get around Novell and NT license limits) and software products that run on OS/2 to completely replace Novell and NT servers, with services such as NDS, SMB "Lan Manager" things, and complete TCP/IP services all on one machine. I think they still promote OS/2 this way today... they exclusively used OS/2 on the internal PC's when I worked there, anyway. I don't think they want to lose whatever equity they have left in that system. But this is old news; perhaps I'm waxing nostalgic. Kris -- Kriston J. Rehberg AOL: Kriston http://kriston.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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