The official death of OS/2 has arrived

Published on Friday, July 15, 2005 By Brad Wardell In WinCustomize News

The lingering death of OS/2 has come to an end.  9 years after the last major version of OS/2, IBM has officially announced what most observers (outside Usenet's comp.os.os2.advocacy) have known for years, OS/2 is dead.  IBM is directing existing customers to the Linux OS.

"We're making official what has been going on for quite some time," said Steve Eisenstadt, an IBM spokesman. "We haven't released a new version of OS/2 in nine years."

According to Eisenstadt, OS/2 has fewer than 80 customers that hold more than 10 licenses.

Stardock, from 1994 to 1998 was one of the leading OS/2 software developers.  Stardock's history on OS/2 can be found here.