IBM To Push Support for NT

[Dave <rdsims@ibm.net>]

According to the Saturday, February 14, 1998 edition of  The Toronto
Globe & Mail, IBM is set to announce a   " major strategic
shift " to embrace and promote Microsoft Windows NT next Tuesday. 
This is to co-incide with their launch of a series of low-priced ($2500)
NT based computers aimed at small & medium-sized businesses, with IBM's
own DB2 database and Lotus Domino software included as well.

According to several experts quoted in the article, IBM has given up in the operating system arena, due to loss of some of their customers to the NT platform, and sees NT as a better market in which to push acceptance of its' own DB2 and Lotus Domino software.

I've been using OS/2 for many years thru 3 upgraded versions, and can understand and appreciate the advantages this operating system posesses. However, I am also heavily involved in the financial markets, and any programme involving day-trading on the major world markets is heavily oriented to UNIX or NT. Needless to say, my trading activities would be non-existent were I to depend on an OS/2 version of a stock-trading programme.

As I have stated, I use and appreciate OS/2 on my non-financial machines, however, it is becoming harder and harder to justify a separate OS that is limited in its' usability with regards to the rest of my requirements.

Country Joe and the Fish sang it at Woodstock..(for those of  us {like me!}old enough to remember..)

" And it's 1,2,3 - what are we fighting for?"

Comments to TP newsgroup appreciated.

Regards

Dave Sims