It could all end in tears – in a high profile manoeuvre Bill Gates attempted to disengage Microsoft’s reputation from OS/2’s failure to take off by talking about version 3.0 and New Technology in which object-oriented technology will play a key role. So how was IBM Corp, now in charge of OS/2 2.0, to make a marketing splash and get some kind of revenge? Well it is signing high-flying Borland International Inc to what could prove promising business. It has asked the Scotts Valley, California company to develop specific object-oriented programming languages and development tools for the forthcoming 32-bit OS/2 2.0, which is to be generally available later this year. The languages and development tools, available early next year, will start with an implementation of Borland C++ for OS/2.
