Greetings, Stephane...
 Stephane Bessette hastily said to Sheppard Gordon:
 SG>> After all, if consumers _wanted_ OS/2 they'd buy it. The fact that
 SG>> they're overwhelmingly satisfied with what they "ended up with" is not
 SG>> good news for IBM, is it.
 SB>         They could be satisfied with what they get because they are
 SB> repeatedly told that what they get is the best (or leading/cutting
 SB> edge) available, and because they don't know of anything else:  the
 SB> commercials with the nuns mention IBM, not OS/2.  And if you go to
 SB> an IBM store, you'll see IBM hardware installed with MicroSoft
 SB> software (that's what I've been told).  So how are customers supposed
 SB> to know that OS/2 exists?
That's true enough... I was in one on my lunch hour today, looking to find 
out the current price of Warp 4.0 on the "Wet" coast.  All the machines were 
loaded with Windows 95 (proclaimed quite prominently).
I asked about Warp 4, and was told they had one copy, a full version, and 
that was reserved.  They were expecting more "in a couple of days"....  On 
the other hand, the salesman did say that they'd had quite a few and sold 
them all last week...
The store even had an "OS/2 Software" section (hard to get at, but there) 
with things like the Graham Utilities, Partition Magic, GalCiv, 
PhotoGraphics... so maybe things are looking up.. 
        -- Bob
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