There must have been some combined cheering and cursing in Redmond.

The reason for cheering:

IBM has finally given up on OS/2, and has announced that it will no longer sell or support it.

The reason for the cursing:

IBM suggests that OS/2 users migrate to Linux.

NOT Windows.

Mind you, OS/2 has been a marginal player for years. I used to develop software for it, and it actually was quite a decent system - with significantly better performance and some higher end features compared to Windows NT 3.51 (prevelant version of NT at the time I was developing for OS/2)

But IBM's marketing of it was lackluster.

So say "Rest In Piece" to OS/2... and welcome the Penguin!