
THE OS/2 WARP WEEKLY - A production of PSP Worldwide Marketing Support
     Covering information relevant to OS/2 Warp and LAN Server
               The 9/15/95 Issue (A real collector's item)

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The OS/2 Warp Weekly and OS/2 Warp Monthly Newsletters are available on
   the Internet at http://www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/newsletters.html

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                              CONTENTS

1.  REISWIG CONFERENCE ON COMPUSERVE A HUGE SUCCESS
2.  WHY I CHOSE OS/2
3.  SCANDINAVIAN RETAILER PICKS OS/2 WARP
4.  COMPUTERWORLD ADMITS MISTAKES IN OS/2 REVIEW
5.  OS/2 WARP SERVER BETA GARNERS MORE ACCOLADES FROM THE PRESS
6.  UNIMAINT: A BUNDLE OF PRACTICAL OS/2 UTILITIES
7.  CORRECTION
8.  WARP'D HUMOR

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1.          REISWIG CONFERENCE ON COMPUSERVE A HUGE SUCCESS

Lee Reiswig's online chat on Compuserve, sponsored by PC-WEEK and held
September 6, was very well received by the computing community. Here is 
a brief excerpt:

Q:   Could you offer a synopsis of the comments you had intended to give
     during the Windows Solutions conference?

A:   "I was going to talk about the 32-bit operating system coming of
     age.  It's been a dramatic two weeks for the computer industry, as
     expectation and anticipation are finally fulfilled, and end users
     get their hands on Windows 95.  The ones that have been able to
     install it will get taste of the power and connections that OS/2
     users have relied on for years.

     The lessons we've learned from those years of development were the
     core messages for my keynote.  The main lesson:  a 16-bit mentality
     won't work in the 32-bit world.  Delivering incremental improvement
     is not enough.  In this "new" world, enterprise and power users
     want proven software.  They work in an established, heterogeneous
     computing environment and want their different software and
     hardware, old and new, to work well together.  All users want the
     ability to use the solution that best meets their needs, which
     doesn't necessarily come from a single provider.  They are starting
     to use a new breed of applications, that are collaborative and
     connected and customizable, versus more and more features packed
     into an office suite.

     The 32-bit world is a world where success depends on the ability to
     choose.  Bank of Boston chose Microsoft Money for Windows as its
     solution for providing online banking and bill-paying services for
     customers at home.  It chose OS/2 Warp for a mission-critical
     client/server environment that will allow tellers and bankers in
     all of its branches across the U.S. to give their customers state-
     of-the art, personalized service.

     Microsoft is slowly, surely creating an environment that denies
     customers and developers the ability to choose anything but
     Microsoft software.  Some think that's smart marketing.  I think
     it's impossible:  customers will continue to choose software that
     does what they need and works with what they have.  IBM's software
     group is focused on delivering open, standards-based, multi-
     platform software that plugs into that 32-bit kind of world."

The complete transcript of this session may be downloaded from the
PC WEEK Forum on ZD Net/CompuServe Edition. To get there, type GO
PCWEEK. To join ZD Net/CompuServe Edition, GO ZDNET. Permission is 
granted to IBM Corporation by Ziff-Davis Interactive to distribute this
transcript on specific IBM-sponsored online sites. 

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2.            WHY I CHOSE OS/2 (FIFTH IN A SERIES)

Why are people choosing OS/2 Warp instead of Windows?  These answers,
which come from a wide range of computer users, cut through the hype.

               Because of its Application Support
               ==================================
Virgil Pittman
CIO
Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.

"We needed to integrate our mission critical applications with off-the-
shelf software in an industrial-strength, client/server environment and
OS/2 was the one operating system that could pull it all together for
us."

BOTTOM LINE:  OS/2 Warp with its Win-OS/2 capability provides memory
management and multitasking benefits to DOS, Windows and OS/2
applications.  


                    Because of its Productivity
                    ===========================
James Troxell
Vice President
Eddie Elias Enterprises

"Because OS/2 Warp is integrated with my desktop, cutting and pasting
and printing and faxing is really easy.  I can actually grab something
off the Internet and fax it immediately, without ever copying it.  That
kind of response time is really appreciated by my clients."

BOTTOM LINE:  Applications work in concert on OS/2 Warp's desktop
automatically because of its object-oriented technology. 

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3.              SCANDINAVIAN RETAILER PICKS OS/2 WARP

Fona, the largest retailer in Denmark and one of the largest in
Scandinavia, has decided to promote only OS/2 Warp for the rest of the
year.  Fona will not mention Windows 95 in any of their
advertising.

The news hit the front page of the largest newspaper in Denmark on
September 6, under the headline:  "Fona Boycotts Windows 95."  That
newspaper was handed out to everyone visiting the biggest computer fair
this year in Denmark

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4.         COMPUTERWORLD ADMITS MISTAKES IN OS/2 REVIEW

Computerworld's September 11 cover story which compared OS/2 Warp and
Windows 95 was rife with mistakes.  In response to complaints from
readers, the magazine's Editor-in-Chief, Bill Laberis, posted the
following retraction on various OS/2 forums:

   We screwed up.

   And that is likely to be the headline on my editorial the week of
   Sept. 18 as I write about the problems and issues swirling around
   our page 1 piece on Sept. 11 comparing OS/2 and Windows 95.

   To put it briefly, we did not adequately follow our own printed
   guidelines for quality assurance in hatching such product
   comparisons.  The result was a comparison that had an obvious
   inaccuracy, for starters, about OS/2's support for long file names.
   In addition, because we did not follow our own procedures for quality
   assurance, we cannot fully stand behind what we printed and need to
   revisit the product comparison anew.

   This is in no way to impugn the individual reviewer, who pretty much
   did as he was guided to do by our editors here at Computerworld.  We
   just plain screwed up, what more can I say?

   We have other procedures and rules in effect here, one of which
   states that we will make prompt and complete correction of errors.
   This we will do starting with my editorial next week.  Then the issue
   of the 25th of September will contain a front page reference to a
   full page of letters from some of the many angry readers who have
   written us about this comparison.

   Finally, and this is most crucial to me, we will make arrangements
   for a new product comparison between Windows 95 and OS/2, to run some
   time later this fall once we complete the review - this time in
   accordance with our guidelines and also up to Computerworld
   standards.

IBM's official response to the original Computerworld article is
available on the Internet at
http://www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/nwsresp1.html

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5.    OS/2 WARP SERVER BETA GARNERS MORE ACCOLADES FROM THE PRESS

Continuing OS/2 Warp Server Beta's impressive run of positive reviews
from the press, here are some more choice quotes:

"IBM officials characterized OS/2 Warp Server as a 'one-stop' business
solution that will allow enterprises to selectively install software in
order to configure a simple file and print server or a complex
application server."

"I like the idea a lot.  I can tell you from our experience with the bu
ndling of products in OS/2 Warp Connect, installation is a dream," said
David Dupre, an OS/2 user and associate systems programmer at Provident
Life and Accident Insurance, in Chattanooga, Tenn.  "If they can do the
same for the server product, there couldn't be a more welcome solution
of OS/2 sites."

IBM SHIPS OS/2 WARP SERVER BETA
InfoWorld, Aug. 21, 1995, Jason Pontin and Paul Krill

                     ==============================

"We can't wait to get it," said George Szatkowski, senior technical
support specialist at Metra railroad in Chicago.  "OS/2 and LAN Server
have been remarkably feature-rich and stable products."

"IBM has made OS/2 Warp Server a total operating system and network
operating system package; with [Microsoft Corp's]  Windows NT and
Netware, you'd pay extra for some of these services," Bob Sakakeeny,
analyst at Aberdeen Group.  "If you're already a LAN Server or OS/2 Warp
customer, you'd be crazy to migrate to another network operating system
platform."

OS/2 WARP SERVER BETA SENDS USERS INTO ORBIT 
ComputerWorld, Aug.  21, 1995, Laura DiDio

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"OS/2 Warp Server's crash protection, multitasking capabilities and
ability to support applications based on a variety of desktop operating
systems could make the IBM offering an attractive applications server,"
said Rob Enderle, an analyst with Data quest, Inc., in San Jose, CA.

IBM PREPARES ITS NEW NOS CONTENDER,
Network World, Aug. 28, 1995, Kevin Fogarty

                     ==============================

"OS/2 Warp Server's unified installation and 'everything but the kitchen
sink' feature set make this amalgam a worthy competitor to Microsoft
Corp's Windows NT."

"...a very capable network operating system that will work well in both
small and large installations."

IBM READIES SALVO VS  NT IN NOS WARS,
PC Week, Sept. 11, 1995, William Katz

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6.          UNIMAINT: A BUNDLE OF PRACTICAL OS/2 UTILITIES

SofTouch Systems is now offering its UniMaint System Utilities pack--a
very practical toolset for OS/2 users.  The software is an INI file
editor, and is able to run a series of tests to find and correct
obsolete references to files, paths and old entries.  The software was
favorably reviewed in the September 11 issue of InfoWorld.

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7.                            CORRECTION

The OS/2 Warp promotional postcards described in last week's newletter
were mailed only to U.S. retailers, and not to retailers in Canada.

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8.                           WARP'D HUMOR

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