> > 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.

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