mark lewis wrote in a message to Dave Liquorice:

 DL> If only that where true. IBM don't plug OS/2 because it is
 DL> getting close to its "end of life" date. I think WARP4
 DL> passes it (has past?) it this year, WARP3 was last year or
 DL> the year before.

 ml> actually, IBM hasn't been pushing OS/2 for several reasons... one
 ml> of the first being the high cost of enduser suppport... IBM has
 ml> always made their money in corporate support and endusers aren't
 ml> going to pay like that... 

I remember when Warp was being pushed in tv ads,  and I said back then that
they really didn't know what they were getting into.  They're just really
not geared up for that sort of thing...

It's no surprise to me that they pulled back.

 ml> another reason was m$'s threats to disallow IBM to market windows 
 ml> on IBM machines... those two are the major ones...

Yeah,  that too.  They did have an "agreement" at one point in
time,  but I don't think either party really knew what the other one was
like and what they were getting into.

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