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Can OS/2 fend off Windows?(banking software)

By Radigan, Joseph
Publication: US Banker
Date: Saturday, July 1 1995

Many consider bank versions of IBM's OS/2 operating system its 'last stand' in desktop software. Barring any leverage IBM might gain from its acquisition of Lotus Development Corp, it may soon lose even this market to Windows 95. Although the latter will debut in Aug 1995, the battle between the two systems will not be determined for another year or more because independent software vendors have yet to develop applications for the new systems.

For a software salesman, Paul Loftus can't have it very easy. Imagine facing what appear to be insurmountable odds against the software ind

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