> > MS Office (and Lotus Smartsuite among others) proved him wrong. > > I should have added he had the OS/2 market almost to himself. The OS/2 > version of SS had an appalling reputation, and Office? What Office? > > The principal choices were Windows versions of WP, Office and SS, or > Describe.
You could, at the time, run _most_ of the Windows stuff under the OS2 WIN32S add-in. One of IBM's greatest broken promises was a full-function version of that product. However - the common factor between Lennane and SuSE is a degree of hubris.