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Story: KDE getting ready to go native on Windows
Posted by: Gregory L. Marx (Tuesday 8 February 2005, 10:33 PM)
I can't argue with your 2nd and 3rd points, but as to your first, sorry but this isn't so.
OS/2 Warp sold so well for general desktop usage that it topped PC Magazine's sales chart 2 or 3 months in a row.
InfoWorld readers rated it so high that it won BEST PRODUCT like 5 times, so much so that it caused InfoWorld to literally change how they allowed voting on their site since one of their editors just couldn't believe that people liked OS/2 "that" much.
EggHead Software as well as CompUSA carried all available OS/2 desktop apps and from what I understand they sold very well.
There are *STILL* fortune 500 businesses that use it on the desktop. It also brought alot of money into IBM, but since they make literally billions and billions the profits didn't look as great.
But in the end IBM OEM'd OS/2 out to Serenity Systems, which they now market as eComStation, or eCS for short. And again from what I understand IBM expects quite a lot of sales from their OEM partners, and SS has far exceeded them every year.
All strictly Desktop usage.
Unlike Linux. Desktop penetration was so dismal that RedHat and others officially stopped their desktop distros of Linux. Wonder why ?
Please don't get me wrong, I like Linux. And I look forward to using it fulltime whenever eCS finally does close up shop. I am realistic. Linux has the momentum.
eCS doesn't, unfortunately.
GLM
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Story: KDE getting ready to go native on Windows
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I don't remember OS/2 *EVER* d... Richard June
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Well, I know OS/2 didn't get m... Gregory L. Marx
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