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Konu: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: New notebooks
Tarih: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:39:47 -0800
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Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
On 02/16/07 03:24 am, Kris Steenhaut thus wrote :

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And a proposito, I'm advising against Thinkpads (as everybody should have done) since day one IBM sold out his lot to Lenovo, since almost a year thus. Of course I was the bad guy (and still am I presume), but don't tell me I was/I am to late.

IBM owns almost 19% of Lenovo. Sell out? No. They simply profited from the success of the label, and took in a bundle of cash - while still holding an 18.9% stake in the profits. Good business. If I owned IBM stock, I probably would have been pleased with the deal. (See http://tinyurl.com/ywlzfh for more details, as well as http://tinyurl.com/2aqur9 and http://tinyurl.com/2fkjgx - the latter two being less biased, IMO.)

Here's a tidbit I gleaned from one major media report a few years back. According to that source, IBM did not actually sell the rights to use Thinkpad and PC to Lenovo. They sold the marketing, manufacturing and service organizations. At some point in the not too distant future (before 2010), all trademarks revert to being IBM property. In short, Lenovo is actually RENTING IBMs trademarks to help them leverage their organization onto the world stage. If true, that has to go down as one of the all time great IBM financial coups.

On another topic, if IBM is requiring that the new Thinkpads be compatible  with Linux, it means that the information necessary to do that is 'open'. This is still a good thing for OS/2 as it means drivers can be written and the source will most likely be available for OS/2 supporters to utilize. Products from companies who exclusively load Windows on their hardware will still be more questionable.

Currently, I do not use OS/2 on my Thinkpad (a souped up A31), even though it ran really well. The problem is, as always, software compatibility. I use so many Windows programs, by necessity, in my normal business (audio product engineering and acoustics design) that I would virtually never be able to boot it. I have Virtual PC, which held fabulous potential for making OS/2 a viable base platform, but it wasn't completed before Microsoft murdered the company. Without the USB support, obsolete hardware emulation and the inability to fully utilize newer hardware, running Os/2 with VPC+Windows just doesn't cut it anymore.

I still use OS/2 on a couple of boxes at work that are dedicated to running legacy software, using VPC+Windows 2K for the few things I need to, like running recent releases of Acrobat Reader.

Thomas Garson
Aural Technology, Ashland, Or.
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