Instead, the online notice reflects that fact that IBM is phasing out the distribution of OS/2 in shrink-wrapped boxes, Eisenstadt said. Customers can still purchase the software online and either ...

The Blue Lion project has now become the ArcaOS 5.0 which means that it is following the old IBM name pattening. The last IBM OS/2 was 4.52. It is supposed to be released in the fourth quarter of ...

IBM’s OS/2 celebrates 25 year anniversary, still alive if you know where to look IBM’s ill-fated operating system OS/2 turns 25 this month, but it’s not as dead as you might think.

A group of die-hard OS/2 users are petitioning IBM—again—to release the operating system’s source code as open-source. The question may not be whether IBM wants to do so… but if it can.

As William Zachmann, CEO of Canopus Research Inc. and a long time OS/2 user in its day, told me on LinkedIn: “IBM dropped the ball so badly with OS/2 that I’m not sure they could even find it ...

Mainframe computing continues to be central to enterprises despite the success of cloud computing. IBM z/OS 2.5 could make mainframes even more valuable, the company says.

IBM is measuring OS/2 for its coffin. The company reaffirmed its intent to soon end support for the storied operating system, releasing an official road map for the software’s demise.

IBM may dispute the connection as part of some master plan to take back from Microsoft what Microsoft took from it in the 1990s (aka: avenging OS/2's death), but I'll bet you that somewhere on ...

IBM announced on Monday that the man who oversaw the development of its OS/2 operating system in Boca Raton over the past four years is resigning to take a job in Alabama. Tommy D. Steele, 51 ...

International Business Machines Corp. announced on Tuesday the early shipment of OS/2, the operating system for the advanced models of its line of PS/2 personal computers introduced in April. The ...

Eventually, OS/2 will install, but a few calls to IBM’s 800 number may be necessary. Calls to Technical Support are not returned promptly, probably because IBM never anticipated the demand for OS/2.