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I'll answer that question: it's EASY! Because, Jon, no one really _expects_ Microsoft to be _honest_ about their motives. IBM, on the other hand ... we've come to expect nothing but the best from them. (see OS/400 versus ANYTHING ELSE for a proof-of-concept) <grin> -- Don -----Original Message----- From: Jon.Paris@halinfo.it [mailto:Jon.Paris@halinfo.it] Sent: April 05, 2000 10:33 PM To: midrange@halinfo.it Subject: MAKEMONEY cmd >> and i was somewhat offended at ibm's attitude if you wanted their p/c development products you had to switch to os/2. Why aren't you offended by MS not porting to other platforms? MS publicly promised to port many tools to OS/2 when sales reached a million - sales went way past that figure MS never ported a thing. IBM on the other hand ported many tools to Windows once 95 was available (after all Windows 3.1 was hardly an OS) +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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