This is an .mp3 encoded excerpt of an interview with former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner that was published on CNET News as a realaudio feed on 20 November 2002.

The context of the discussion is Gerstner being interviewed in front of students and administrators at Stanford University on 19 November 2002 during a promotional tour for his new book "Who says elephants can't dance?"

Gerstner talked for approximately 30 minutes about his days at IBM and responded to various questions from the interviewer during that 30 minute period.  He mentioned OS/2 for a few seconds while talking about his ability to make final decisions.  The excerpt covers approximately 1 minute of the interview and includes his comments regarding OS/2.  Below is a written transcript of the OS/2-related comments that are contained within the .mp3 excerpt:

[begin Gerstner transcript]
"There's certain decisions you can just sort of say  'I've decided ... this is what we're gonna do.'   I suspect, far more in my circumstance than yours <audience laugh>.  Ahhh...but...you know, I could make the decision that we were gonna stop fighting with Microsoft over desktop operating systems and just say "Look, that's it.  We've made the decision ... no more resources are going into OS/2 and we're gonna go on and do other things."
[end Gerstner transcript]

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