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From: hunterp
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:00

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In <858953572.987137@nntp-2.io.com>, timur@io.com (Timur Tabi) writes:

>IBM's GS (it's no longer called ISSC) does not push IBM products.  Their
>official reasoning is: "we're hired as consultants - if we pushed IBM
>products, we'd be no better than IBM salesmen.  Our customers don't need that,
>they just need their problems solved."

Agreed. However, this does illustrate the viability and power of OS/2. My father
works for GS or ISSC, and we talk about the designs going into companies and
about 85% of the designs are OS/2 or AIX based. Pretty cool really.
>
>>Don't worry about AIX.  There's the SP2 and anyway AIX seems to be a 
>>chameleon.  I'm waiting for someone to slap the workplace shell onto 
>>AIX.
>
>Hmmm.... WPS on X?  Interesting idea.

Why not. We already have a win95 look-a-like of fvwm. Pretty cheesy looking
though.

>
>--
>Timur "too sexy for my code" Tabi, timur@io.com.
>http://www.io.com/~timur/index.html
>THE OS/2 Programming Page: http://www.edm2.com/common/links.html
>
>... In Windows 95, no one can hear you scream
>

Patrick Hunter
hunterp@xmission.com
hunterp@ibm.net

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From: hunterp@xmission.com
Subject: Re: A new lease on life:
Date: 1997/03/22
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