Re: Perl (was: text equation

[Ray Peterson <rpeterso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon Coulter wrote:

>
>
> With the current upsurge against Microsoft, IBM has a perfect opportunity to 
>provide an
> alternative *IF* they hire a decent marketing company to promote it.  We've 
>seen similar
> comments here about IBM's poor marketing of the AS/400 so I doubt it will 
>ever happen,
> but IBM could rename OS/2 (call it Phoenix -- haha -- and remove all OS/2 
>references in
> the GUI and help text) and promote it as the New Technology for home and 
>business.  If
> MS can convince the world that NT (which is a poor version of OS/2) is good, 
>IBM can do
> much the same with a better product.

Great idea, but it'll never happen.

As long as we're talking things that'll never happen, let's have IBM make OS/2 
"open
source"!

And who would benefit most, IBM of course.  So it'll never happen either.

Ray

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