Obituary: OS/2
PC Mag | at | by Mike
Born April, 1987. Died Dec. 10, 2002. Cause of death: neglect. Place of death: Armonk, New York. Next of kin: none. Attending funeral: nobody. Official announcement appeared on IBM Website.
I suppose this poor fellow has been dead for a long time, but perhaps nobody remembered to pick up the corpse (yes, I said the same about CP/M 10 years ago). While CP/M died from the ravages of progress, OS/2 died from neglect and lack of will. And yes, backing away from OS/2 was a pragmatic move, since IBM could not compete with Microsoft or its tactics. But how amazing to see a company that large cowed into submission by a bunch of whippersnappers in Washington who already had taken IBM to the cleaners when they convinced the Goliath to let them own PC-DOS at the outset. The death of OS/2 must be humiliating for IBM.