Re: Development of Oracle Power Objects for OS/2 stopped!!! E-Mail Campaign!!!

From: <lclark_at_ibm.net>
Date: 1996/03/27
Message-ID: <4jc23m$24mk_at_news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>#1/1


In <4jao95$lsv_at_fountain.mindlink.net>, jcathie_at_mindlink.bc.ca (John Cathie) writes:
>In message <31586539.5875_at_mccaw.com> - Shawn Ramsey <shawn.ramsey_at_mccaw.com> wr
>ites:
>
>:>From what I have seen, IBM is to be blamed for the lack of
>:>support for OS/2. IBM has vascilated so much on the direction
>:>of OS/2 that I cannot blame any company that wants to make a
>:>profitfrom dumping any development for OS/2.
 

>:>the Power PC. Then when they about complete the Power PC
>:>version, they dump it.
>
>What do you infer by the word 'dump'?
>
>IBM has OS/2 for Power PC for sale.
>
>They did announce there was no further development planned for 1996. That
>does not preclude the possibility of a major development effort in 1997. That
>does not preclude the possibility of a change of mind and start of a
>development effort in 1996.
>
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>//
>// John Cathie jcathie_at_mindlink.bc.ca
>// Team OS/2
>//
>// Certified IBM OS/2 LAN Server Software Specialist
>// IBM BESTeam member
>//
As I understand it, the Power PC chip costs twice as a P6 to manufacture and WARP performance is about the same on both. Also, the AIX servers are also going to have a Intel version. What is the point of developing a version on a more expensive hardware base with no performance advantages when it can do the same on the Intel base. Win95 is not and never will be on anything but the Intel base, and NT is a resource hog waiting for the hardware to mask it. Received on Wed Mar 27 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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