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Some of you may already
be aware of this but as of January 31, 2001, IBM is going to be ending its defect
support on OS/2 Warp 4. In its place OS/2 users have two paths:
1) Purchase the OS/2 Convenience Pack
2) Purchase eComStation (Stardock's recommended upgrade path for existing OS/2
users).
You can find out more about eComStation at:
http://www.indelible-blue.com/software/ecs.cfm
and
http://www.touchvoicecorp.com/eComStation.html
However, both of these products target the corporate user. That doesn't mean
end users can't use it, it's just that now it's clear that OS/2's presence in
the consumer market is officially ending as regular users will not be able to
purchase OS/2 anymore at a store.
Moreover, supporting OS/2 software has become increasingly expensive since the
number of people who are familiar with OS/2 decreases and thus training a new
person to support OS/2 software is very time consuming. And since the
OS/2 market is no longer expanding, we've reached the point where we've pretty
much sold all the OS/2 software we're likely going to sell barring making new
versions or creating new software.
As a result, effective January 31, 2001, Stardock will be discontinuing its
OS/2 software. We are not eliminating our free technical support (our
news groups and email) but free phone support will be phased out.
Stardock has enjoyed being part of the OS/2 community for all these years. Most
of our OS/2 customers have migrated to other platforms, the majority of them
are still with us now on Windows. But we feel we cannot continue to sell
our OS/2 software when we aren't able to provide the same level of support that
we're able to provide to our Windows users.
We will be continuing to sell our OS/2 software up until January 31, and those
products can be found at:
http://www.stardock.com/products/os2warp.html
For those of you who still use OS/2 and have no plans to migrate, we wish you
the best. OS/2 is still a terrific operating system featuring great technology.
Visit the Stardock Web Site at:
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