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IBM was by far the largest IT company of the day and came up with this long-range plan called SAA (Systems Applications Architecture). SAA tied together all IB
by scholia 9y ago
IBM was by far the largest IT company of the day and came up with this long-range plan called SAA (Systems Applications Architecture).
SAA tied together all IBM's enterprise systems (except the Unix ones) and it mandated IBM's version of OS/2 on the client.
Some people felt that IBM had sufficient market power to impose it. I assume Lotus did, too. It turned out that IBM was wrong, and Lotus's strategy sank along with IBM's.
OS/2 was part of a strategy to take back control of the PC industry by shifting the whole thing to an IBM-controlled base with PS/2 systems, MCA buses, and the OS/2 operating system.