[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <gptds3$q8$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>,
> 	m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
>> so I guess in this analogy OS/2 would be the Porsche:
>> it's lean, fast, has an own distinctive GUI 
>> and runs on my Thinkpad which I can take
>> with me anytime I want to.
> 
> And to think people here think I am the one who is anti-VMS.
> 
> Porsche's are anything but lean.  They do perfoem well, but then,
> depending on your criteria, so does VMS.  OS/2 was a lame attempt
> to mimic Microsoft.  It had as much chance of success as Linux
> does today.

OS/2 did not mimic anything MS since when OS/2 was originally
designed all MS had was DOS.

It failed.

By every indication Linux is a success.

Arne