Big Blue: The future is now Print E-mail
Posted by Kim Haverblad - Saturday, 19 June 2004

OS2 is mentioned within an article about Big Blue and that the future is now.


At the dawn of the PC era, IBM management's hardware-centric mentality underestimated the power of software and allowed Microsoft to establish its fortune with its Disc Operating System. IBM later attempted to build a successor to DOS, called OS/2, with Microsoft's cooperation. That ended in a high-profile divorce. IBM got a dead-end product, and Microsoft walked away with a multibillion-dollar franchise in Windows NT.

Entire article can be found here.

Source: zdnet

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