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   Check out http://www.os2ezine.com/ and read the article by Isaac 
Leung and some links from there.  The author makes the point that while 
an OS/2 license is dearer than Linux (free!) and various versions of 
Windoze, it is much more efficient with the use of resources.  You can 
compensate for the lower efficiency by buying more hardware but this 
could easily cost you more than the OS/2 license would cost!

   From the Extreme Tech link you will note buried in the print, IBM 
says it will support OS/2 "indefinitely" as long as there are customer. 
  Since there are still quite a lot of customers this could indeed be 
indefinitely.  Remember IBM is like a country with different states. 
The different states don't talk with the same voice!  Their big boys 
have been saying OS/2 will phased out for a long time but the support 
has kept right on coming for nine years now in my direct experience!

   Notice what the IBM software engineer says about porting OS/2 
software to Linux and the difficulties in doing so because the software 
concepts, including those from System V, are inferior.

   What about applications?  Well for sure it is more limited than the 
razzmatazz in Windows and Linux but what there is of it is very good. 
Notably European and Russian groups or companies have and are developing 
good software for OS/2 (that that part of the world is doing it rather 
than the Anglo world is culturally significant.  An associate remarked 
to me that this goes back to WWII days and probably before).  For 
example, I burn quite a lot of CDs with RSJ written for OS/2.  Anyway 
where you must use Windoze software, like Encyclopaedia Britannica, for 
me I hang Windoze machines on an ethernet line.  With the solid OS/2 
machine supporting the LAN it doesn't matter as much that the W machines 
are flim flam.  Using Safefire my OS/2 machine functions as an internet 
router so when the OS/2 machine is dialled up all the W machines have 
access    Another solution is the use of Virtual PC but this is not 
cheap and you don't get another work station work point.  ODIN is still 
under active development with the ambition to run W9x programs under 
OS/2 natively.  Many of the WINE team in Linux are working on this project.

   Like the share market most software publishers don't publish for OS/2 
because there is no "momentum" even though the "fundamentals" are sound. 
  There is always the possibility that something will cause the 
fundamentals to break thru momentum.