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- IBM's OS/2 campaign showed how marketing matters more than technology
- I've said it before: Good marketing beats better technology. The corollary of that is: Bad marketing dooms good technology. If you want proof of that, you need look no further than OS/2. IBM was widely criticized for its bad marketing of OS/2 and this ad shows why. ...
- Tags: Marketing, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, IBM Corp., Operating Systems, Software, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- 5 of the best desktop operating systems you never used
- Bill Gates' original dream when he created Microsoft was to have "a computer on every desk and in every home, all running Microsoft software." Clearly, he accomplished that goal. Depending on whose statistics you want to believe, Windows has a market share in the high 80% - low 90% range....
- Tags: Desktop, Steve Jobs, BeOS, IBM OS/2, DOS, Operating System, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., NeXTSTEP, NeXT Computer Co., DESQview, GEOS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- IBM refuses to open source OS/2
- IBM has refused the second petition, organized by the OS2World, for open sourcing the OS/2 operating system. Coincidentally, Os/2 was originally a joint project developed by Microsoft and IBM, as a successor to DOS and Windows, but Microsoft quit the partnership to pursue Windows 3.0. An excerpt...
- Tags: IBM OS/2, Open Source, IBM Corp., Operating Systems, Software, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- RAR (DOS & OS/2) (exe)
- This is a version of RAR archiver for DOS and OS/2. RAR's main features are general and multimedia compression, damaged archive repair, authenticity verification, embedded file comments and encryption. Version 3.71 improves processing of corrupt archives.
- Tags: Multimedia, IBM OS/2, DOS, RAR, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-09-26
- IT pros: Avoid becoming a human OS/2
- Calvin Sun kicks off his column, Surviving your Customers, with a look at how technical superiority doesn't always equal success--either in the marketplace or in the IT industry. Sun urges IT pros to avoid relying entirely on technical skills for career success, citing a recent CIO magazine survey in...
- Tags: IBM OS/2, Information Technology, Professional Development, Strategy, Career, Management
- Download resources 2007-02-12
- Don't repeat the business mistakes of history: Learn from the tragicomedy of OS/2 and IBM
- They say those who fail to learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them. Take a look through the dark glass of hindsight at some of the most influential marketing and business ideas and decisions of the last twenty years. Learn why these these philosophies didn't work...
- Tags: Chapter, IBM OS/2, IBM Corp., Operating Systems, Software
- Download resources 2007-01-10
- Dual Boot Windows Vista with... OS/2?
- Anyone who knows me, knows that that I've been a longtime fan of OS/2. I've written a few articles and posted some blog entries about OS/2 here on TechRepublic. I even still have a computer at home that runs OS/2 along with a test machine here at the TechRepublic Labs...
- Tags: IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- Microsoft's ignorant PR
- Perhaps,it's more a question of arrogance. Maybe they just don't consider Linux to be competition.understandable: 10 years agoI would understand (and even buy) this sentiment 10 years ago. But today? No way. Linux IS competition to MS and if they don't open their eyes to that they will be sorry.Nothing...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, lastchip, public relations, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, IBM OS/2, Micro$oft
- Discussion threads 2007-03-27
- IT pros: Avoid becoming a human OS/2
- This article is also available as a PDF download.Now that Microsoft Vista has officially been released, let'stalk about... Windows 3.0.Yes, Windows 3.0. We can learn much from that product, eventhough it came out more than 15 years ago. Its main competitor was OperatingSystem/2, or OS/2 for short. Similarly, in the...
- Tags: Calvin Sun, career, Dvorak, IBM OS/2, information technology, keyboard, main competitor, technical skill
- Technical articles 2007-02-12
- IT pros: Avoid becoming a human OS/2
- Has your experience in the IT field shown you the need for communications skills as well as tech skills? Do you work with anyone who's technically brilliant but completely lacks people skills?Communications is important?This should not be a surprise to anybody, particularly not to those with extensive experience in customer...
- Tags: JodyGilbert, calvin sun, career, communications, soft skills, IBM OS/2, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
- Dual Boot Windows Vista with... OS/2?
- I still have an OS/2 Warp T-ShirtI've long since considered OS/2 dead since 1995. The UI was messy and running Windows applications was resource intensive. Was easier to go with the real thing when Win95 came out with hundreds of titles to launch with it.
- Tags: geekend, george_ou@..., IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows Vista, windows
- Discussion threads 2007-01-25
- Why running Windows apps on a Mac is a bad idea
- No sooner did Apple announce that they were switching toIntel chips to power the MacIntosh did people start making noise about beingable to run Windows on them. As I pointedout in my lastmessage, it seems to me that running Windows on a Mac doesnÂ’t make a lot ofsense. Of...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, IBM OS/2, ISV, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Windows application
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- How scalable is your virtualization solution?
- How scalable is your virtualization solution?article rootRemember the ORIGINAL VM - Still ViableLet's remember that IBM's VM (virtual machine) is the ORIGINAL virtualization OS, and has been in existance since 1970. With the emergence of mainframe IFL's (integrated facility for Linux), z/VM is still growing with the ability to host...
- Tags: IBM OS/2, it management, LeeMac, mainframe, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Virtual PC, operating system, PC, scalable, server, virtualization, vm, VMware Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-12
- Computer maker files antitrust suit against Microsoft
- Computer maker files antitrust suit against Microsoftarticle rootNot until 2009There is little chance that anything will stick to Microsoft until after the next presidential election, and then only if there is a significant change. The current Justice Department is unlikely to assist a plaintiff in any way, and even...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., operating system, microsoft, justice department, federal judge, bush administration, gardoglee, it management, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, computer, antitrust
- Discussion threads 2006-02-22
- eComStation 1.2 Arrives!
- Last year – ok last month – I mentioned that I startedkicking around OS/2 on one of my workstations at home and found it stillrelatively useful. I also mentioned how Serenity Systems had been working on alicensed version of OS/2 called eComStation. I had read a lot about ECS on...
- Tags: eComStation 1.2, ECS, IÂ've, IBM OS/2
- Blog posts 2006-01-13
- OS/2 Lives!
- With all all the talk around here lately of MacOS vs. Linux vs.Windows, it got me thinking lately about my old Microsoft AlternativeOS Of Choice - OS/2. Long ago having lost the desktop war with Windows,OS/2 quickly faded to obscurity. Even IBM announced earlier this yearthat it had decided to...
- Tags: Operating systems, IBM OS/2
- Blog posts 2005-12-07
- TechProGuild Podcast - July 22, 2005
- In TechProGuild's latest podcast, Michael Jackman explores the latest Windows XP security announcements, HP's announced layoffs and the bell tolling for OS/2.
- Tags: layoff, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, bell, podcast, security
- Download resources 2005-07-22
- IBM to can OS/2 - Tells customers to switch to Linux
- IBM earlier this week announced it's plans to officially put to rest the operating system that at one time went head to head with Microsoft's Windows.With that being said, it was the first real 32-bit operating system that totally integrated many things, as well as Microsoft Integration.How much of an...
- Tags: IBM Corp., IBM OS/2, Linux, open source the os or rip?, The Admiral
- Discussion threads 2005-07-19
- IBM to bury OS/2
- Sad to seean old friend fade awayAnother victim of the market machinations of Microsoft. It's a shame it became a casualty as it was and is an extremely robust and secure OS, far better than it's contemporary 32 bit MS offerings and in many ways superior even to current operating...
- Tags: ibm, IBM Corp., IBM OS/2, microsoft, Microsoft Corp., operating system, operating systems, os/2, programming, WDMilner, windows
- Discussion threads 2005-07-18
- OS/2 is Dead. Again. Really. We mean it this time.
- It's been a long time since OS/2 has been in the news. This morning I noticed an article on News.com stating that IBM has finally decided to stop selling OS/2. So yet again, when OS/2 makes the news it's yet another declaration of its death.When I worked at the Jefferson...
- Tags: IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2005-07-15
