Hi Lance, 
On 12-21-94, Lance Leonard wrote to Peter Davies:
 LL> growing home market, but IBM needs to focus on (and perhaps even
 LL> subsidize) getting the major Windows apps ported to OS/2.  Once that
IBM has subsidized many Windows ports.  Smartsuite being one I can think of.  
The other problem is quaility of the ports.  Most home-market major "new" 
software for OS/2 is poorly written and does not take advantage of 
multi-threading and other features as it should.  This is because typically 
it is written by newly converted Windows programmers.
 LL> happens, then the market may begin drifting in that direction.   But,
 LL> with two (or more) OS ports being needed in the "wars" right now and
 LL> the limited resources avialable to software houses in the "lean and
 LL> mean" '90's, it's a very hard (but completely understandable) call
And I almost wish Win95 would arrive.  This would force Windows programmers 
to learn multi-threaded models, and also allow much easier single-source 
coding.  Picture a company like Lotus writeing and maintaining a single set 
of code for both Win95 and OS/2.  Make a change, recompile it twice and you 
have 2 identicle products for different platforms!  It is nearly impossible 
to do that with Win 3.1-3.11 today since the code must be single threaded.
 LL> that needs to be made.  Who do you develop your apps for?  The
The Navy.  I spend most of my time writing management software for a flight 
training squadron.  In the days of cutbacks we are going from 95 to 45 
officers and 25 to 15 enlisted.  This mean we all either work smarter or 
harder.  I much perfer smarter!
 LL> dominant (or presumably so AAR) OS, namely Win95.   That's just my
 LL> own thoughts and not necessarily the thoughts of anyone else
 LL> (including my employer, collegues, cat, etc.), but I think they make
 LL> sense. (Of course, I'm biased... )   -- Lance
--Pete
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