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

In <4jljp8$etu_at_news3.cts.com>, cwr_at_cts.com (Will Rose) writes:

>: I'm sorry but this is not the case. IBM is whole-heartedly behind the
>: PowerPC OS/2 platform. The reason they released something as early
>: as they did was to give developers the time they need to work on
>: the platform. IBM does not intend to suddenly drop support for one
>: platform and insist you go onto another (like one company we could
>: name). OF COURSE PowerPC OS/2 is a "niche."
 

>They won't sell developers either the software or the hardware to run
>it on; I can say that after three months and 15-20 calls around the US.
>This may be IBMs definition of whole-hearted support, I don't know, but
>if so it's a definition of the words of which I was previously unaware.

Greetings once again,

IBM is not selling OS/2 PowerPC systems because it is a backburner project. They have chosen to focus on Intel for the time being. Now, question: would you sell YOUR customers systems that are very much incomplete? No, you would lose that customer's business in the future.

>Their advice for the PPC stuff they still sell, mostly servers, is to
>buy NT.

Actually from what I've seen, AIX is what they're pushing on PowerPC.

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