I do believe that Infoworld should publish the numbers to give a better idea of how things fell. I have a hard time taking "other" as a ranked response. Does other mean they reponded with "other" or was it that they choose something else other than what was picked for them? It is unclear as to what this means. I would also like to see the number of people out of 300 that though that OS/2 was worthy of product of the year. I myself have been an OS/2 user but I know that personal users are far and few between. I does seem to have some very happy big corporate customers but I have seen little evidence that it has a very large "consumer" userbase. I work for a university computing advising program and most of the questions I answer involved setting up PPP on Windows 95. The Mac is second with Windows 3.1 a distant third. I have had one call for OS/2 in my year of work for them. The university I go to has 25,000 students so maybe that is more of a valid cross section of society. I know that most OS/2 advocates would argure that the OS/2 people aren't calling because they already know what they are doing but that is just and excuse like the many other out there. I challenge OS/2 advocates to do their own survey's. Take a walk around your neighborhood and ask people if they have computers and if they do ask them what os is running on it. How many OS/2 software stores are there? What kind of business do they do? Every place that I ever saw OS/2 software locally has dropped it. How many native commerical OS/2 apps are being worked on right now? Don't tell me about Java just yet. If I can right once run anywhere why should I stick with OS/2?
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