Jack Stein wrote in a message to Roger Nelson:

 JS> What I'm talking about is taking the $3 BILLION IBM spent on the 
 JS> dead, or soon to be dead LOTUS, and spend it getting OS/2 into the 
 JS> main distribution system, insuring that developers had the 
 JS> software and support needed to develope and distribute their 
 JS> applications.  

I vaguely remember attending an IBM seminar in New Orleans in August (I forget 
the year, but think it was '94) where Warp was lap-topped and big-screened for 
the atttendees.  The laptops had 20MB of RAM in them, so Warp literally flew.
Later on after lunch, we went to another room where there was a Lotus rep
previewing for the masses the Lotus SmartSuite for OS/2.  He was asked a lot
of pointed questions, some by me, and gave satisfactory answers to all but one 
-- "Is IBM merging with or purchasing Lotus Development?"  He declined to
comment. Anyway, I bought the SmartSuite for OS/2 because I was heavily into
Lotus at that time and found the comparison of it to the one for Windows
dreadful.  I couldn't get anything I wrote in Lotus for Win to format properly 
in Lotus for OS/2.  It may have sheer frustration on my part that caused me to 
give up on it or it may have been a "feature" in the program.

 JS> If you gave me $3 BILLION dollars to waste in 1993, I would have
 JS> had at least one of the major distributors of computers selling and
 JS> supporting OS/2, right damn next to WIN 3.1.  In less than a year,
 JS> WIN would have been crushed as useless junk, and everyone would
 JS> have been running OS/2.  

It may not have been that simple, Jack, but it is probably for the reason you
give (below).  You would still have to convince the software develpoers to
write apps for it and while some are, they pale in comparison to the multitude 
of programs available to the home user. 

The debaucle of Warp will undoubtedly will be recorded by historians as
another unsolved mystery.

 JS> IBM DID NOT WANT THAT TO HAPPEN!  

Regards,

Roger 
--- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+
114/441