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As late as 2003 (when I separated from them), Sterling Commerce, a Columbus based EDI network now owned by IBM, used an OS/2 system to convert zModem and FTP tr
by ceautery 7y ago
As late as 2003 (when I separated from them), Sterling Commerce, a Columbus based EDI network now owned by IBM, used an OS/2 system to convert zModem and FTP traffic to SNA, so that PCs could talk to a mainframe without needing to to buy special modems that could talk bisync. That was the only non-trivial use of OS/2 I've seen, and for all I know it's still running.
In the 90s, the CompuServe online service had a dedicated tech support team for people using OS2CIM to connect, and they were pretty evangelical about using OS/2 over Windows or pre-OSX Macs. It's a fun ecosystem, and its users were pretty passionate about it. I'm glad to see it's still being used for something interesting.