The official death of OS/2 has arrived
Friday, July 15, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
The lingering death of OS/2 has come to an end. 9 years after the last major version of OS/2, IBM has officially announced what most observers (outside Usenet's comp.os.os2.advocacy) have known for years, OS/2 is dead. IBM is directing existing customers to the Linux OS.
"We're making official what has been going on for quite some time," said Steve Eisenstadt, an IBM spokesman. "We haven't released a new version of OS/2 in nine years."
According to Eisenstadt, OS/2 has fewer than 80 customers that hold more than 10 licenses.
Stardock, from 1994 to 1998 was one of the leading OS/2 software developers. Stardock's history on OS/2 can be found here.
Reply #2 Friday, July 15, 2005 5:42 PM
Reply #3 Friday, July 15, 2005 8:10 PM
Welp, I only had a small chance to try out OS/2 back in the old days. Unfortunately, it didn't keep me in long enough for me to continue using it.
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Reply #1 Friday, July 15, 2005 4:48 PM
Remember those days when we thought almost anything IBM did was good, because we loved OS/2?
Personally, I always thought it stupid that Lou Gerstner was voted top OS/2 advocate by certain OS/2 magazines and user polls after Warp 3 came out. I always saw him as the beginning of the end.
Brad, your chronicling of the history of OS/2 and Stardock has always meant a lot to me as another OS/2-Windows user. Thanks for taking the time to cover this stuff over the years. Together with books that discuss the IBM-Microsoft OS/2 era, such as Barbarians at the Gates and Hard Drive (those are the only two I can remember right now), maybe we'll get the whole picture someday.