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Subject: OS2News: Humour - Vapourware, Inc.
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New Technology Watcher Magazine (r)
  
March 26, 1996
BALTIMORE, MD.   VaporWare, Inc., developer of the award-winning  
VaporWare Office Suite, announced that the software giant will not port  
its software portfilio to the OS/2 platfrom.  Peter Chance, senior VP  
of product development said, "Actually, we never had plans to develop  
anything for OS/2.

But after hearing that Oracle, Corel and FrameMaker un-announce their
plans for OS/2, we summized that *NOT* writing for OS/2 is now vogue."
Willmintogn Spaulding, chief techonology analyst at Dick Hurtz &  
Assoc., a technology industry research firm in Columbia, MD, said that  
this only reiterate what industry pundits have said for nearly a  
decade, "OS/2 is dead.  

Forget the banner December 1995 sales figure; forget the oustanding...  
oh, I  mean, unexplanable high January sales figures; never mind that  
IBM's outsource arm, ISSC, is installing OS/2 everywhere, whether or  
not their client want it; never mind that John W. Thompson is that  
biggest OS/2 asset and cheeleader in a decade.  None of that matters.   
When you have a heavy weight like VaporWare, which never had an OS/2  
project anyway, announce that it will not develop for OS/2 even before  
it announces that it will develop for OS/2, I think you should see the  
hand writing on the wall."
  
A well placed source at VaporWare, speaking on the condition of  
anonymity, said that not developing for OS/2 will help that company  
focus its resource on its currently supported platforms: AIX, HP-UX,  
Linux, SunOS/Solaris, DG-UX, SCO Unix, Novel DOS/Netware/UnixWare,  
MS/PC-DOS, AppleDOS, MacOS/PowerMAC OS, Windows 3.x/95/NT, Plan9, OS-9,  
AmigaDOS, Atari OS, QNX, PC-MOS, Dec VAX/VMS, Dec Ultrix, IBM  
MVS/VS/VSE, embedded DOS, exteneded DOS, over-extended DOS,
Apple AUX, Commodore 64/128 OS, Adam OS, Texas Instruments OS.  
  
The source went on to say said that developing for OS/2 would blur that
company's focus, and was not a strategic platform.
  
IBM officials could not be reached for comments.
  
Reporter: LarryLippschitz