Put your bullet back in your pocket, Barney... :)
OS/2 2.0 came out in April, 1992. A spectacular technical success--multithreaded 32-bit OS, fully object-oriented GUI, a beautiful object model (SOM)...I could go on...but a stupid marketing failure. I still use OS/2 at least a few times a week, and I still love it.
Cheers,
Phil Hobbs
Well, absolutely. I was sure hoping OS/2 would make it but they blundered so badly in the marketing area that it's hard to believe. Essentially they could have eaten Microsoft's lunch but instead simply walked away from the table.
They simply didn't have the money.
Back then the money ratio was still in IBM's favor. IBM turned away because it would have eaten into their Power architecture 'nix workstation line. One more instance of killing the golden egg laying goose to save the lame duck product.
No, it wasn't. IBM was bust, by some *very* knowledgeable people, withing two or three weeks of missing payroll. There simply were more important places to put a few hundred million$.
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