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To: Michael Perrault who wrote (9318)	6/16/2000 10:22:00 PM
From: Michael Perrault	Read Replies (2) of 9798

So far here the discussion here seems to be comparisons between Corel Office 2000 and Microsoft Office - with Star Office- poking its nose in here and there. When discussing the windows platform the discussion is still Corel vs. Microsoft. There is another player: namely IBM-Lotus Smart Suite. While I work with Corel/2000/win/linux I envy and have been 'seduced' by Lotus Organizer. My previous passion was OS/2-warp which I was committed to for nearly 10 years; If only IBM had been as committed as I and the thousands of other dedicated OS/2 users - who haven't yet given up!!! IBM did release a feeble OS/2 version of Smart Suite - minus the database "Approach" - which is a pretty big omission. The Smart Suite OS/2 got very bad reviews (I suspect it was a windows port and it was very slow) and IBM (as with OS/2) just quietly dropped it. Interestingly, the "offical press" generally reported that Microsoft never considered OS/2 as a threat. What came out in the Microsoft vs.US Government trial was just the opposite! There was a relatively long period of time between when users began to grow tired of the limitations of win3.1 and the long promised and eventual release of win95. And the Microsoft advertising hype during that time ran like a forest fire in dry conditions in a high wind! During this time IBM ran a feeble marketing campaign to promote OS/2 but then Microsoft (as I understood from the trial) told IBM point blank to stop promoting OS/2 or they would not grant IBM a license to preload Windows 95 on their desktop computers. OS/2 - with effective marketing and promotion and true IBM support could have been positioned (IMO) to surplant Windows as the client/desktop operating system of choice). In fact I seem to recall from the trial reports that IBM's MS licensing cost soared just prior to the 'order' to stop promoting OS/2. Amazing!! - and they got away with it. And Microsoft told IBM point blank (trial paraphrase) "Hey, we're the only game in town! Where ya gonna go? Well, this has gotten to be a long windy epistle. My point of focus: IBM has developted their own flavor of Linux and apparently are offering desktop/client computers with Linux pre-installed. If Linux really takes off with consumers is IBM likely to write/release a Linux version of LOTUS Smart Suite? If they did, this would be a real competitor in the Linux - and I truly hate this term! - "marketplace". nuf sed michael

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