From: sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why Windows NT will fail -----
Date: 14 Dec 92 01:44:43 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Dec11.211713.23323@wam.umd.edu>, rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
 writes:
>In article <94880@rphroy.ph.gmr.com> rbotimer@max.ct.gmr.com (R Douglas Botimer
) writes:
>>:     Make that "1/2 windows 1/2 OS/2 halfbreed version *2*.5".

>>NT peddler, of obvious superior intellect, is benevolently trying to keep us
>
>
>       ^nonsense.   ^obviously.
>
>
>>foolish OS/2 users from hurting ourselves. Well,I guess that's the missionary

>>calling - spread Bill's vision!
>
>       OS/2 users are no brighter than any other crowd.  If OS/2 users
>       make purchases that are to the detriment of OS/2 (i.e. accepting
>       and purchasing out of date (WP, Corel), poorly written (Corel,
>       all MS OS/2 apps, anything that uses Mirrors) and overpriced
>       (I don't even want to talk about some of the prices that OS/2
>       had back in the 1.x days) merely encourages companies to let
>       their product atrophy (WP) or cease development (Corel).)


What does 1.x have to do with now?  Buying apps like those shows that we are
interested, not that we are to be put on the back burner.  I don't exactly see
OS/2 users rushing out to get old 16-bit apps though.  We generally have more
modern ones that and are anxious to get 32-bit native versions.
Furthermore, where do you get this crap about Corel stopping development?
They have said NO SUCH THING.  In their *own words*, they are skipping version
3 on the OS/2 platform and going strait to VERSION 4.  This is to AVOID
FURTHER DELAYS.  (I apoligize for the big letters but they seem appropriate
even though it makes this look like a Dvorak column)

>       As an Os/2 user, it is blatantly obvious to me that the ONLY
>       way OS/2 will succeed is if 1)OS/2 users *buy* OS/2 apps
>       and 2) request OS/2 versions (which I do bi-monthly, calling
>       every Windows app company that I use, calling all of the
>       hardware manufacturers I own peripherals from--along with
>       faxes when I think they're not listening)--but they MUST
>       balance this against giving companies (like WP) the idea that
>       they can market shit (WP5.0) and sell it at full price to the
>       moronic OS/2 users who are buying it for brand loyalty.

OK so start buying them.  There are plenty availlable right now that work very
well.  I'll send you a fairly extensive list if you like.  In addition the
release dates for some truly major apps are within the next 3 months.  As far
as I know every Lotus product is on schedule to be shipped before the end of
1Q93.  Some should appear right after new years.  I believe CA is in more or
less the same boat.  As for your pestering the companies, I thank you.  We
need more people to do that.
>
>
>--
> Snout: O Bottom, thou art chang'd!  What do I see on thee?
> Bottom: What do you see?  You see an ass-head of your own, do you?
> ---"I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they----
> ----aren't even superficial"    --Nietzsche   ---------------------
>


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Stacy John Behrens
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