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   Downsizing is here to stay for god only knows how many years -
   it isn't just affecting employee cut backs - as far as I can
   determine.  Who is going to be around to do the great BIG programs
   that need so much memory, eh?

   Well anyway this is my opinion right now.

ES>Porting a DOS app to OS/2, or even to NT/Windows, generally resul
ES>in a pisspoor port that does not take advantage of the OS API's.

   I don't follow you, Eric.  Why should the port be a big problem if
   Pascal programmers use BP 7.0 for Windows and WindowsNT.  You are
   probably right for OS/2, but I don't see any significant data to
   support the notion that tons of consummers are buying and using OS/2
   apps - so where is the market for OS/2 products - in comparison to
   Windows - at least - right *now* -- an for the next year, or so, at
   least.

ES>The solutiion
ES>is to begin from scratch and write *native* applications for the
ES>target OS. you get up to speed in C++ - it is not that difficult
ES>and you have already demonstrated the ability

   Well I have a track record of picking up new comilers real quick -
   almost trivally - but C++ is not as trival for me.  I wish it were.
   :)

ES> - and invest in
ES>Watcom's compiler, you can produce native OS/2 apps, and if you
ES>must, recompile for 16- and 32-bit DOS, NT, and
ES>Windows. In my mind, that flexibility is well worth the effort
ES>required.

ES>Since mine is now an OS/2-only shop, IBM's compiler is generally
ES>used, thoug Watcom is on hand.

   You mean your personally owned consulting co. or the company you are
   an employee of - I am slightly confused.  I tend to think you might
   make different types of decisons, if it were your own company
   where money might be a serious problem - vs your present decisons
   which make more sense to me if you work for a financially well healed
   big company as an employee producing products for internal use only.

   I don't know, you may have become a OS/2 shop for your own personally
   owned business because you see a extensive OS/2 market I don't see
   now - or for the immediate (next) year, or more.  What do you see for
   the OS/2 market in comparison for Windows and NT for the next year or
   more?

ES>Pascal is still my language of choice, and I still use it for quick- and-dir
ES>prototypes and general fooling around.  However, when it became obvious that
ES>Borland could be relied on for nothing more than brown-nosing Microsoft, I
ES>decided to quit crying in my coffee and move on.  It was a profitable decisi
ES>that I do not regret.

   If you found it has been a profitable decison for you and your shop
   to move to OS/w exclusively, I can't, and won't, argue with
   your success.

   I would just like to know how OS/2 became so successful for you, so I
   can maybe join you. 

Regards, -= Lou =-


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