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In <3486380d$2$nftevzry$mr2ice@news.icx.net>, ASgrimel@NSicx.net writes:
>In <MPG.eef47761663080098968b@troll.apana.org.au>, on 12/03/97 
>   at 10:40 AM, terry@gargoyle.apana.org.au (Terry ) said:
>
>>There has not been much promoting in this discussion, more like a lot of 
>>flaming due to people comparing OS/2 with Win95, are you guys too scared 
>>that maybe Win95 is a decent product that does have a strong market 
>>hold?? And before you reply, remember that there is currently a group of 
>>programmers trying to alter the dll's (and others) so that Win95 products
>> can run under OS/2. Why would you do this if OS/2 products are just as 
>>good or better??
>
>sniped
>> ....if it was possible 
>>to run 95 products over a network to OS/2. Once again, you guys are 
>>making it so OS/2 can run 95 products, so once again, you are advocating 
>>that 95 products are better.
>
>Could it be that I am forced to use 95 at work and M$ keeps changing file
>formats with every new version?  I cann't use my OS/2 software without
>deleting the "new" features in 95 products.  BTW, the quality of the
>software doesn't prove the quality of the OS.  It is economics, the OS
>with the greatest business prescence has the most software.  The Mac had
>the best software and OS early in the game, bad marketing killed Mac(as it
>is trying hard to kill OS/2) so now Mac software is behind the curve.
>
>Besides, how bad does DB2/2 leak resources?  Each version of Access leaks
>worse than the previous(I have been using Access since ver 2.0, now using
>Access97).  Even Pdox for 95 leaks.  As does Visual Foxpro.  And Excell97. 
>Word97 has it's own set of little quirks, granted most home(and business)
>users don't use the buggy "features." 
>
>>Good for you, now as soon as OS/2 appears on the store shelf next to 
>>Win95 I know you have promoted it. And I don't doubt you provide 
>>technical support, but that is for current users, where are the new 
>>users??
>
>Go to CompUSA, they seem to be restocking the selfs(that's plural) for
>OS/2.  Since OS/2 sits between Win95 upgrade(not to SR2 which is supposed
>to be OEM only) and Linux(which doesn't seem to be selling).  They even
>have have prices listed to install Win95 or OS/2.
>

Good info from both sides but shouldn't this be in cooa ?

j.

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