When SmartSuite was ported to OS/2, everybody hoped that it would make a difference to OS/2's fortune.
It wasn't lack of software that killed OS/2 in the early days. It was the fact that Big Blue didn't catch a clue that the keys to selling any current OS are #1) quality device drivers for darn near every imaginable combination of hardware, and #2) a commitment to providing inexpensive, powerful development tools to the small- and mid- level programming shops. Which is why I never invested much time beyond first looks and did not buy the OS/2 Smartsuite.
Of course, it hasn't helped since that OS/2 was so heavily X86 that for all practical purposes it couldn't be ported, or that Big Blue couldn't seem to market their way out of a paper bag back then.
SmartSuite couldn't save OS-2 from bad IBM choices (Score:1)
It wasn't lack of software that killed OS/2 in the early days. It was the fact that Big Blue didn't catch a clue that the keys to selling any current OS are #1) quality device drivers for darn near every imaginable combination of hardware, and #2) a commitment to providing inexpensive, powerful development tools to the small- and mid- level programming shops. Which is why I never invested much time beyond first looks and did not buy the OS/2 Smartsuite.
Of course, it hasn't helped since that OS/2 was so heavily X86 that for all practical purposes it couldn't be ported, or that Big Blue couldn't seem to market their way out of a paper bag back then.