| Subject | : | OS/2 on list of flops? |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 24 Apr, 2007 on 15:14 |
| http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012345&pageNumber=5 "Don't Believe the Hype: The 21 Biggest Technology Flops" Among the items to vote for, OS/2 is listed. I do not think it should have been listed. It was not 'overhyped' but 'underhyped' by IBM. I am hoping eCS will do better. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9017160&intsrc=hm_ts_head "Your Votes Tallied: The Biggest Tech Flop of All Time" I am glad OS/2 only received 2% percent of the vote. I sent them feedback to let them know of the current status of OS/2 in eCS. I said OS/2 is the catepillar that becomes the eCS butterfly. I have a drawing I did where the cocoon has OS/2 on it and the emerging butterfly has eCS on its wings. BigWarpGuy - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OS/2-eCS.org Director of Communications - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - supporting the past OS/2 user and the future eCS user http://www.os2ecs.org |
| Subject | : | Re:OS/2 on list of flops? |
| Author | : | Admin |
| Date | : | 24 Apr, 2007 on 18:39 |
| Nice to see that Microsoft Bob has taken the first place so far in the mentioned poll. |
| Subject | : | Re:OS/2 on list of flops? |
| Author | : | cyberspittle cyberspittle@yahoo.com |
| Date | : | 25 Apr, 2007 on 06:57 |
| Even though I am a huge fan of OS/2, I'll have to admit it was a flop ... a marketing flop. At the time OS/2 was the only real 32 bit contender. It was a technical marvel in it's day. When Windows 95 came out, it was a technical Frankenstein, a mix of 16 and 32 bit code. In all honesty, who came out on top? I'll admit it was a flop, even though it pains me to say it. Anyways, that is all behind us. After all we have a great community here. What we have together is more important than any stupid journalism about technical flops. You know what they say about opinions ... they are like @ssholes. Everyone has one. |
| Subject | : | Re:OS/2 on list of flops? |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 25 Apr, 2007 on 11:32 |
True the marketing was a disaster but not the product; but compare with Microsoft Bob; now that is a truly shitty product that Microsoft really pushed to the market. So there is after all a difference betwen flops and flops. ![]() |
| Subject | : | Re:OS/2 on list of flops? |
| Author | : | obiwan |
| Date | : | 25 Apr, 2007 on 18:59 |
Thanks cyberspittle. This could not possibly have been stated better. How true!
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| Subject | : | Re:OS/2 on list of flops? |
| Author | : | Stuart srtgray@clara.net |
| Date | : | 26 Apr, 2007 on 12:09 |
I believe that the marketing person responsible fro Bob was one Melinda French, better known these days as Melinda Gates. Stuart |
| Subject | : | Re:OS/2 on list of flops? |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 26 Apr, 2007 on 19:35 |
| In the feedback section, there is mention of who created it. I left feedback and sent an e-mail to the author. |