Hi Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, Yes it's me again 



10-Feb-97 15:06:32, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to All

          Subject: "Which C++ Compiler ... ?"



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 JdBP>     ³  [*] Ships on CD-ROM          (*NOTE*) [*] SOM support (*NOTE*)³Û

 JdBP>     ³  [ ] DirectToSOM C++                                           ³Û

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 JdBP>     ³ No FIDONET address.  No Internet address (watcom.on.ca has     ³Û

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 JdBP>     ³ PowerSoft (who now own the company).                           ³Û

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 JdBP>     ³ Watcom International Corp, 415 Philip Street, Waterloo,        ³Û

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 JdBP>     ³ Telephone : +1 519 886 3700    Fax : +1 519 747 4971           ³Û

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Well I just talked to Watcom today. They called to let me know that v11 has

been released.  I inquired what enhancements had been made to the

OS/2 portion of the product. Zip, nada, zero, nothing.



Watcom used to be an OS/2 friendly vendor but since they were purchased by

PowerSoft they have gone to shit. I doubt that we will ever see any more

OS/2 support from this company.



I was looking into using some of their DB products for some client-server

work but considering the direction their company is going I am recomending

that my clients go with DB/2.



I really hate this. I hate propritary systems. Due to IBM's mismanagement

of OS/2 I am being boxed into a corner of having only one vendor providing

the tools I need for my work IBM. Maybe Java can revive OS/2 but it still

has miles to go before I would consider it anything more than a toy for

developing Web applets.



Maybe when IBM decides they are tired of yanking everyone's chain they can

sell OS/2 to Calderia and they can release a FreeOS/2 with source. :)



William H. Geiger III

Geiger Consulting

whgiii{at}amaranth.com



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