By @Macarlo
Registered user of 212 OS/2 shareware
Team OS/2 Registered

 Hi All.
In several mailing lists OS/2 users are at this time discussing if OS/2 Warp is really deceased and buried or not. Some OS/2 developers since 1998 decided change his focus to Windows Platform, such David Hamel (Boxer), Brad Wardell (Stardock), Matthias Pfersdorf (MED) and recently Sun's McNealy decided discontinued StarOffice for OS/2 after a talk with IBM's Lou Gerstner. Also recently IBM published his strategy for the year 2000 and some OS/2 users are scared.

But some others developers follow releasing applications for OS/2 Warp, as dozens of Germans developers, several Russian developers and famous American developers such Wayne Swanson (PillarSoft).

At the next May 26 WarpTech will be started and IBM mentioned this event in his official web site.

 Yesterday May 21 I received from the OS/2 Users Mailing List some e-mails that I judge very interesting. I selected two and you can read it below:

From Rick Bonano

Just picked this up off it.comp.os.os2.  Article suposedly dated
5/17/00.  More FUD or what?

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http://thebusiness.vnunet.com/News/1101410


 IBM sounds death knell for OS/2

 IBM has finally announced a date for the demise of its OS/2 operating
system, despite preparing a consolidated release of the software in November.

 An IBM spokesman said there will be no more 'fixpacks' for client
software after 31 January 2001, and for servers after 31 May 2001. Updates for WorkspaceOn Demand will cease on 31 January 2002. Support will continue in what IBM called"special-bid, fee-based service extension, and total content offering defect supportfor selected OS/2 products and components".

 "IBM wants its customers to deploy ebusiness technology applications
concurrently with existing OS/2 applications until platform neutrality has been
achieved, and then change the operating system," said the spokesman.

 Big Blue has repeated its commitment to the November release, but said
it will be just enough to keep the operating system working.

 Clive Longbottom, a senior analyst at Strategy Partners, said there are
still a large number of OS/2 users, particularly in the Ministry of Defence, and
various banking and manufacturing industries. "It is too expensive for IBM to providesupport, and they don't want to tie up developers on a product that no one wants any more," he said.

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Just wondering,

Rick

From Karen Mansbridge-Wood

On Sat, 20 May 2000 18:30:36 -0500, Rick Bonanno wrote:

>Just picked this up off it.comp.os.os2.  Article suposedly dated
>5/17/00.  More FUD or what?

>http://thebusiness.vnunet.com/News/1101410

It sounds as if thebusiness.vnunet.com has simply picked up the
OS/2 2000 Strategy announcement and repeated as much of it as
the reader was capable of understanding.  It doesn't reference
the actual source of this announcement, nor does it reference an
IBM whitepaper.  Without one and/or both of those references, I
give it very little credibility.  I think we're all very much
aware that IBM doesn't seem to have any idea what to do with
itself or OS/2 at the moment, and IBM has always had employees
who had no idea what they were talking about.  Witness a IBM
sales person in Australia who informed an Australian user who
wanted to purchase a copy of Warp 4 than IBM had no plans to
upgrade 2.1!


Karen

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