An Amiga sidenote in history

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I was going through the old software at Weird Stuff Warehouse, and came across a box with OS2/Warp. Never having remembered anyone I knew ever installing it, I had little knowledge of it, besides some derisive comments in a few computer magazines. Looking on the web, I came across this mention. [/quote]site link

 

With Microsoft no longer doing development on the user interface, IBM was faced with creating this themselves. In this timeframe, a deal was made with Commodore. Commodore licensed IBM's REXX scripting language for inclusion in their AmigaOS, and IBM took many GUI design ideas from the AmigaOS for their new GUI. With the release of OS/2 2.0, the WorkPlace Shell (WPS) user interface was born. OS/2 was now a 32-bit operating system, with a fully object-oriented graphical user interface. Based on IBM's System Object Model (SOM), the WorkPlace Shell is still the model for all graphical user interfaces, since nothing else has come even close to providing the same functionality. OS/2 2.1 and 2.11 followed, including a version of 2.11 with full Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) support. OS/2 2.x won over many Windows 3.x users because of it's ability to run Windows programs seamlessly, while maintaining a stable system, something that Windows had trouble doing. IBM even went so far as to trademark the term "Crash-Proof."

I'm curious if anyone here ever installed it. How was it, next to Winblow$?

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What reason do you think an OS backed by Big Blue, and stable, would cause so few people to write programs for it?