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brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:

 > WHICH PLATFORM IS TECHNICALLY BETTER?
 > This one's easy, NT wins hands down.

With all due respect, I disagree.  Both OS/2 and NT have strengths and
weaknesses.  Nevertheless, the fact that OS/2 will run faster and in
far less memory is a substantial technical advantage.

 > Stability is another important issue.  OS/2 2.0 GA is not very
 > stable.  ...  IBM released a service pack for OS/2 2.0, but
 > unfortunately it too has stability problems.

Again, with all due respect I disagree.  My clients and I have found
GA + SP to be extremely stable.

RE:  Support

 > In general I prefer the Microsoft approach... rarely do I not find
 > what I needed, but this is largely a personal preference, the two
 > are largely equal.  Note that this is a recent development in IBM
 > -- when I started developing for OS/2 in February of last year,
 > their support was a nightmare.

And finally, while I agree that IBM support used to be poor, I
personally find the current level of support from IBM to be much
better than Microsoft.  IBM seems to want YOU to suceed; Microsoft
seems to want IT to succeed.  In my book that's a BIG difference.

Best regards,
John

p.s.  Another important technical advantage for OS/2 is that it does
a significantly better job of running DOS and Win16 applications.
                                                           
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