Have they given up?

[Steve Lamb]

Thursday, April 13, 2000, 9:01:34 AM, Simon wrote:
> What's the "unfortunate news, I wonder"?  The fact that there isn't
> a product called a "warp 5 client", or the fact that warp 4 is 
> being improved with a new kernel, improvements, new function and 
> bug fixes by way of "pay-for" convenience packs?

   Bug-fixes in a pay-for format.  Bug fixes, pay.  Hmmm.

> the battle with MS for the desktop, Lou Gerstner publicly promised
> to support it for another 10 years - 17 years worth of support
> for an operating system that never fullfilled its sales targets
> and probably never made a profit is pretty good in my book.

> I can't think of any other PC OS supplier that makes such commitments
> to it's customers, I call that "support".

    It's customers being large banks and corporations, not the desktop market.
The desktop market is piss in the cup to Lou Gerstner and IBM and the do /NOT/
support it at all.

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