From: Allan Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 07:04:09 EDT
Funny, but IBM has just released FixPak #13 for
the supposedly "dead" OS. And it is more
robust than ever.
I keep hearing rumors that IBM will release a new
client version to better match its new server version, but
we will have to wait and see.
I don't use doze9x except through force, but OS/2 is
easily compatible with NT, at least for 3.5 and 4.0.
I have no experience with the newer version of NT.
Hopefully it is better than the other ones.
The free alternatives you mentioned may be cool,
but mainly they are for nerds. I don't think the mainstream
is ready to support a linux box that has almost no
drivers and fewer applications. Cool yes, market ready,
no, not even for free.
And what non-tech corporation is going to load a "free"
server OS with NO tech support?
And isn't Red Hat in the GUI versilon growing as bloated
as dose?
I guess I am satisfied with OS/2. Don't really care that much
what happens since it does all I need and much much more
and almost never even hiccups, much less crash.
When I first loaded Warp4, it was doing VTD on a pentium83, heh,
one of those stick-in socket upgrades for a 486 mother board.
Allan Ballard
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 09:14:50 -0400, STeve Andre' wrote:
>I'm impressed that you were able to get a fix out of them for OS/2, but
>don't expect
>it to happen often in the future. As good as it was in its heyday, OS/2
>has no future
>whatsoever. Microsoft saw to that when they changed enough ot the internals of
>Win 95 such that OS/2 couldn't deal with it.
>
>I suppose IBM is stuck doing some supporting of OS/2 still, for any government
>contracts they have that used it. If I'm not mistaken, they'll have to
>support it for
>10 years I think, after some point of stopping selling it (or something
>like that).
>
>At this point I wouldn't do anything new with OS/2. There are too many
>neat and
>free alternatives (OpenBSD, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, ...) which are ultimately
>more powerful--and have a greater population of folks who can do things
>with it.
>
>STeve Andre'
>
>At 03:35 PM 4/5/00 -0500, sehh of H.I.C. & D.B.S. wrote:
>
>>heh last time i contacted IBM was to report a bug in the tcpip stack of
>>OS/2, and
>>they told me to pay them money to get it fixed!
>>
>>Now is that normal? You ask people to pay you, to fix your own bugs???
>>
>>So me and the two other people who were working on some os/2 web servers got
>>so pissed off at them, we made about 20 calls and finally got an
>>'interview' with
>>a few IBM managers via phone. We emailed them the debug code, our custom
>>program
>>that helped them reporoduce the bug and 24 hours later we got a call from the
>>guy who actualy made the OS/2 tcpip port! He fixed the bug in a few hours.
>>
>>Moral of the story? You have to either know the right people or pay loads
>>of money to
>>make them do something.
>>
>> H.I.C. & D.B.S. OS/2 Warp Hellas
>> ServerConfig ConfigEdit OS/2 UK UG
>
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