I read somewhere that IBM thought by offering DOS and Windows compatibility they could lure in users, which backfired, because there was no incentive for develo

I read somewhere that IBM thought by offering DOS and Windows compatibility they could lure in users, which backfired, because there was no incentive for developers to offer dedicated OS/2 versions of their software. IIRC, the main reason it caught on in banks was that those were big IBM customers to begin with, and that OS/2 offered good support for talking to IBM mainframes out of the box.