OS/2 - www.OS2.org - Today/Tomorrow/We/Them
The well-known though frequently unanswered questions also apply to us, to OS2.org.
- Who are we?
- Where are we going?
- What about about other ones?
Well, I will leave you guilty of not giving a real answer - I am not Sokrates.
OS2.org is just beginning; founded in OS-2.de and for a few days available in two languages. We try to bring you up-to-date information about 'our' operating system. The software we use and add-ins are also shown. OS/2 itself is (still) in a crisis based on lacking a good information policy by the marketing of IBM. However, a world without OS/2 is hard to imagine. Moreover I cannot imagine a death of OS/2 - many well-known companies are using OS/2 and are not planning a migration to other in systems in the future.
Other systems (or advocates) are feeling a good upcurrent or even 'on top of the sky'.
Someone rising high could forget their foundation very fast and/or neglect it. M$ probably never had one, and Linux is about to lose it - the differences between the distributions are growing continuously and we cannot expect anything better.
So, have a look at the future:
Having this look beside an omnipresent 'Y2K', I cannot answer you what is ahead, but what 'the users' want seems to me: a simple and comfortable environment, powerful and intuitive, which does not always need more and more hardware. OS/2 is on its way to that goal, more or less. And it IS ahead of the others - way ahead.
Windows is a pitiful copy of the WPS and other environments. Linux has the potential in X11, but too many developers are *sadly* on the KDE hype, which itself is a copy of a copy and will obviously need a very long time to reach the point of being interesting and efficient.
At this moment, the future of OS/2 is not the best in my opinion, but I am confident about it. Many others face an even harder way even if most of them are not aware of it.
Philipp Buehler, 1999-02-03
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