Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Corel Corp. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Perrault who wrote (9351)	6/17/2000 10:30:00 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

Micheal, The reason that MSFT never considered OS/2 a threat is because IBM contracted MSFT to write the OS for them!!! (a lot of people don't realize this).. Although they called it a "partnership at the time.. :0) IBM contracted MSFT to help them develop a fully multi-tasking OS which became OS/2. As I understand it, MSFT had a team of programmers working on the OS/2 memory kernel and that team was not supposed to talk with the team working on the Windows project. But apparently they did since both OS/2 wound up using the same memory 32bit kernel as the basis for their OS'. Some folks even conjecture that MSFT programmers deliberately sabotaged OS/2 warp so that it was more difficult to use than the Windows OS they were creating for themselves. Certainly there existed a severe conflict of interest by MSFT. Here is a VERY interesting link to the history of the IBM/MSFT partnership that first lead to multi-tasking OSs such as OS/2 and Win95. os2bbs.com And a couple of other minor links (one containing the spitting image of Bill Gates... :0) os2bbs.com os2bbs.com As for SmartSuite for Linux, I seem to recall reading something to the effect that IBM wasn't going to expend the resources to do this (I could be wrong). But I clearly think that CORL's support for the Linux OS is a prime opportunity for them to get their product on the desktop and undermine the MSFT monopoly (yes, I think MSFT should be broken up). I don't think IBM wants to deal with desktop apps anymore since they lost their butts on Lotus (according to rumours out there). Regards, Ron