[WarpCast] Why VMware Dropped OS/2 - 4/28/00 |
Network Trace for OS/2 - Turn any OS/2 machine into a network probe. - Take a trace on any segment in the network, in minutes. - A software-only, hardware-independent implementation. http://www.goldencode.com/ntrace.html ********************************************************************* Source: Dirk Terrell (terrell@boulder.swri.edu) Moderator: Trevor Smith (trevor@haligonian.com) ------------------------------------------------------- Here is a reply I got from the VMware people to a question I posed about why they dropped their OS/2 support. ==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== From: "Eric Horschman"Subject: Re: Important VMware OS/2 Announcement Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 18:09:38 -0700 Dirk, There was no sinister Microsoft influence at all on our decision. It was based purely on technical and business reasons. To complete a commercial product release with full OS/2 guest support was going to require engineering and support resources at a time when we are dedicating all our efforts to bringing some very promising new applications for virtual machines to market. We did not want to continue providing what we consider to be a sub-standard quality experimental OS/2 feature, so we are getting out of OS/2 entirely. Regards, Eric ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== ------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or for more information on WarpCast, visit: http://www.warpcast.com/ -------------------------------------------------------