Not really relevant: those of us who "create and support" Linux have an
active interest in keeping it alive. IBM as a company [1] hasn't ever had a
serious interest in OS/2 aside from keeping its big customers using only IBM
products; and with IBM's recent hints that it would prefer to drop all its
products [2] and become a consulting company, that interest has officially
vanished.
[1] There are many people *within* IBM who have a strong interest in its
products, whether the product is OS/2 or CICS or ... --- but none of
these people have any significant effect on IBM's actions. Thus, OS/2.
Thus, Mike Cowlishaw busting his butt to migrate Rexx to Java because
IBM is doing its damnedest to render him irrelevant. Etc., etc., ad
nauseam.
[2] Possibly excluding middleware for Windows NT. Naturally, that's the
one product line that's least likely to survive the competition.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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