Support for OS/2 will end this year
IBM pays final tribute to OS/2
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18 Jul 2005, Tom Sanders in California , V3
IBM will stop support for its OS/2 operating system on 23 December 2006, the company said on its website.
Support for related products is scheduled to stop one week later, but continuing support will be available under a service contract.
OS/2 went head-to-head with Windows in the early market for desktop operating systems. Although it was considered technically superior, the software lost out to Microsoft owing to a limited selection of applications.
IBM's operating system had a particularly strong following in the financial sector, powering many ATMs.
The last version of the software was published in 1996, although Big Blue has continued to maintain the software and has been releasing patches.
IBM has advised the few remaining customers of OS/2 to switch to Linux.
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Do you agree?
Well it wouldn't want them to switch to Microsoft
I don't think IBM will ever forgive Microsoft and Bill for doing the dirty over them for OS/2 and the 286 architecture, that Gates and Microsoft were supposed to be developing for while secretly developing the 386 and Windows with Intel.
Memories at IBM are long!
Posted by Kurtz, 19 Jul 2005
Open Source OS/2
There is an ongoing petition that will be sent to IBM to open source OS/2. Anyone that is interest should sign it on:
http://www.os2world.com/petition
Posted by John, 19 Jul 2005
OOOO Nooo
I was planning to port my products to OS2.. my boss was a fan of OS2
Posted by P.G., 20 Jul 2005