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8/4/2025, 6:09:22 AM
Software development can lead to massive disasters...
>With protracted development spanning four years and $2 billion (or 0.6% of IBM's revenue for that period), the project suffered development hell characterized by workplace politics, feature creep, and the second-system effect. Many idealistic key assumptions made by IBM architects about software complexity and system performance were never tested until far too late in development, then immediately proven infeasible. In January 1996, the first and only preview of Workplace OS was released under the OS/2 family with the name "OS/2 Warp Connect (PowerPC Edition)". It was limited to special order by select IBM customers, and had limited functionality compared with the original OS/2 for x86. The entire Workplace OS platform was discontinued in March due to very low market demand, including that for enterprise PowerPC hardware.
>With protracted development spanning four years and $2 billion (or 0.6% of IBM's revenue for that period), the project suffered development hell characterized by workplace politics, feature creep, and the second-system effect. Many idealistic key assumptions made by IBM architects about software complexity and system performance were never tested until far too late in development, then immediately proven infeasible. In January 1996, the first and only preview of Workplace OS was released under the OS/2 family with the name "OS/2 Warp Connect (PowerPC Edition)". It was limited to special order by select IBM customers, and had limited functionality compared with the original OS/2 for x86. The entire Workplace OS platform was discontinued in March due to very low market demand, including that for enterprise PowerPC hardware.
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