                    OS/2 Warp Weekly Newsletter



OS/2 Warp Weekly, produced by PSP Worldwide Marketing Support

covers information relevant to OS/2 Warp and LAN Server.





                        CONTENTS



1.  ICL PERSONAL SYSTEMS PRE-INSTALLS OS/2 WARP

2.  UNISYS CORPORATION PRE-LOADING OS/2 WARP CONNECT

3.  OS/2 WARP CONNECT IN THE NEWS

4.  OS/2 WARP PROTECTION

5.  A WEB SITE TO BEHOLD

6.  LIVEWIRE PUBLIC BETA

7.  IBM ANNOUNCES NEW DEVELOPER API EXTENSIONS FOR OS/2 WARP

8.  OS/2 WARP GETS A+ IN COLLEGE NETWORKING CLASS

9.  SMALLTALK INDUSTRY COUNCIL FORMED

10. WHITE PAPER ON TALIGENT AND IBM PLANS



1.        ICL PERSONAL SYSTEMS PRE-INSTALLS OS/2 WARP



Another PC vendor has joined the growing pack of PC providers

that are pre-loading OS/2 Warp. ICL announced on May

16, 1995 that they will begin pre-loading OS/2 Warp on a number of

models in its Fujitsu ICL ErgoPro and ErgoLite PC ranges.  Some models

will always pre-load OS/2 Warp and on other models, OS/2 Warp will

be a pre-install option.



"The advantages our customers receive from OS/2 Warp lie in the robust

32-bit multitasking, the ease of use and the built-in application

software including easy Internet Access and Office applications.  In

addition to this, the OS/2 Warp family will grow to offer further

interesting solutions for both professional and home users of our PCs",

says Mr Jorma Niinivaara, Director, Software and Networking, of ICL

Personal Systems.



OS/2 has won 57 awards worldwide for technical excellence and OS/2 Warp

has sold in excess of 2 million copies since its availability in October,

1994. Worldwide over 8 million copies of the OS/2 operating system have

been sold.



ICL Personal Systems



Personal Systems, part of ICL Volume Products is the recognized leader

in ergonomic PCs.  In 1994, ICL shipped close to 300,000 PCs and

estimates for 1995 exceed 400,000.  In March 1995, Volume Products

introduced the Fujitsu ICL brand for PCs, servers and connectivity

products.



Based in Helsinki, Finland, Personal Systems has development and

manufacturing operations in Finland, Sweden and the UK.



ICL



ICL PLC is an information technology company specializing in systems

integration in selected markets.  Operating in over 80 countries

worldwide, with 23,000 employees, ICL generated revenues of GBP 2.65

billion in 1994. ICL is a member of the Fujitsu family of companies, the

world's second largest IT group.



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2.       UNISYS CORPORATION PRE-LOADING OS/2 WARP CONNECT



Unisys Corp.'s products will support the OS/2 Warp Connect operating

system.  In a press release, Unisys said it will offer the option of the

operating system pre-loaded on its servers and PCs, beginning in June.



From the Unisys press release:



"Many of our customers have standardized on OS/2 for personal

productivity and mission-critical applications and we want to be able to

ship the latest OS/2 operating system technology as quickly as

possible," said Vaughn G. Hysinger, vice president, marketing operations

for the Unisys Personal Computer Division.  "Unisys has led the industry

in being able to build 100% of its PCs and servers on a

Build-To-Customer-Order basis, including the option of having pre-loaded

software.  Now our customers will have an OS/2 option as part of our

BTCO manufacturing and delivery process."



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3.           OS/2 WARP CONNECT IN THE NEWS



OS/2 Warp Connect garnered lots of press coverage during the past week.

Here are some references you may want to read.



IBM TO SHIP OS/2 WARP CONNECT IN WINDOWS, 'WIN-LESS' VERSIONS

Steve Kovsky, PC Week, 5-22-95



IBM is shipping the WIN-OS/2 version of OS/2 Warp Connect this week

and will ship a "Window-less" version later this summer.



IBM'S WARP CONNECT KEY TO OPEN BLUEPRINT PLANS

Ed Scannell, InfoWorld, 5-22-95



IBM described OS/2 Warp Connect as a key element of their Open

Blueprint strategy.



WARP CONNECTS

InformationWeek, 5-29-95



IBM launched OS/2 Warp Connect May 17 in New York.  This summer, IBM

will offer an additional Connect CD-ROM with SNA communications

software.



IBM IMPROVES PC COMMUNICATIONS

The Sunday Business Post, 5-21-95



IBM's OS/2 Warp Connect will ease communications between personal

computers.



NEWS 4 NEW YORK AT 11:00

Dave Browde, WNBC, 5-20-95



Interview with Lee Reiswig about the launch of Warp Connect and

how it compares to Windows 95.  Browde says, "Now we have tried

Windows 95 and Beta and OS/2 for real.  The difference to us?

OS/2 is available and solid;  Windows 95 is still officially

slated for August release."



IBM DELIVERS NET-ENHANCED WARP CONNECT

Marcia Jacobs, Communications Week, 5-22-95



IBM has launched OS/2 Warp Connect with networking features such as

peer-to-peer capabilities, connectivity to many types of servers,

remote access, enhanced TCP/IP support and Lotus Notes Express.



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4.                     OS/2 WARP PROTECTION



 Security Integration Inc. has introduced StopLight OS/2, security

 software that allows companies to restrict access to networked

 OS/2 PC drives, partitions, directories and individual files.



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5.                     A WEB SITE TO BEHOLD



Do you want a current, complete, accurate list of OS/2 applications?

And a source for OS/2-related services? Point your Web Explorer at

http://www.mfi.com/os2dev. Search for OS/2 software by industry or

product category, locate OS/2 service providers, submit nominations for

new entries, and more.



Check it out! Then spread the word!



The site opens officially June 24th but lots of applications are

there already.



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6.                 LIVEWIRE PUBLIC BETA



DataMirage Software is announcing the public beta of

LiveWire 3.0 for the WorkPlace Shell.



LiveWire 3.0 for the WorkPlace Shell is an object-

oriented 32-bit multi-threaded professional communications

program for OS/2 Warp Version 3.0.



LiveWire 3.0 retains the great features of the text

mode version of LiveWire (version 2.2) along with

a set of new features and an excellent new interface.



Truly object-oriented, LiveWire is a collection of

familiar WorkPlace objects (Terminal, Phone Book,

and Log) that interact loosely. More than one terminal,

phone book, and log object with its own settings can be

created and in use on your desktop!



LiveWire's intuitive and elegant interface allows you

to get online right away. Advanced users will find

extremely pleasing the fully multi-threaded GUI.



LiveWire 3.0 can be retrieved from one of the following

places, filename LW30B1.ZIP (uppercase!):



ftp site hobbes.nmsu.edu

CompUServe (GO OS2SHARE)

DataMirage Software BBS at 1-714-856-2071



* NOTE: Read the READ.ME on DISK1 for install information.



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7.    IBM ANNOUNCES NEW DEVELOPER API EXTENSIONS FOR OS/2 WARP



NEW ORLEANS, May 22, 1995 -- As part of its ongoing campaign

 to reduce software developers' costs and give them opportunities

 to capitalize on the rapidly growing OS/2* market, IBM announced

 its new Developer API Extensions at The 1995 IBM Technical

 Interchange conference here today.  The company also showcased a

 range of technologies and tools that will allow ISVs to bring

 multiple-platform applications to market quickly and easily.



 "Application developers are forced to make tough choices,"

 said John W. Thompson, general manager, IBM Marketing and

 Solution Developer Programs in his keynote address to 4,000

 software vendors and corporate developers. "If they bet their

 business on one operating system platform, they may limit their

 market opportunity.  But supporting multiple platforms means

 maintaining separate code bases at significant expense.  Today

 we're showing IBM's unequivocal commitment to help software

 developers increase their market opportunities while decreasing

 risk, by giving them ways to develop and manage common source

 code across multiple platforms."



 IBM's growing set of developer tools and technologies

 includes its new IBM Developer API Extensions, SMART****,

 Hyperwise*, VisualAge C++*, the IBM Open Class Library and

 OpenDoc***.



 The IBM Developer API Extensions announced today enhance the

 portability of 32-bit Windows** applications to OS/2 Warp,

 helping software developers deliver their applications across PC

 operating systems including Warp, Windows 3.1, Windows NT and

 Windows 95.  The Developer API Extensions are extensions to the

 OS/2 Warp interfaces, designed to make existing investments in

 Win32 APIs portable to OS/2 Warp.



 The Developer API Extensions are comprised of a subset of

 over 700 APIs and 300 messages that are consistent with Win32

 APIs and messages.  The subset includes the most frequently used

 Win32 APIs, and was chosen based on the analysis of more than

 nine million lines of source code from a variety of popular

 Windows applications.  Windows applications that use the APIs

 defined in the Developer API Extensions can be recompiled to

 produce functionally equivalent OS/2 Warp applications.



 Selected software vendors will begin limited alpha testing

 of the Developer API Extensions next week.  The extensions will

 be available for broad beta testing this summer, and IBM expects

 them to be generally available by the end of the year.  The

 Developer API Extensions will eventually be shipped as part of

 the base OS/2 Warp operating system.



 "With our Developer API Extensions as the solution for

 migrating existing Windows applications, IBM's object-oriented

 VisualAge family of application development tools  represents our

 long-term commitment to helping developers succeed, by enabling

 them to reach multiple, growing market segments from a single

 development environment," said John Swainson, IBM vice president

 of application development solutions. "The future application

 software market leaders will be companies that leverage their

 migration investments into competitive advantage by exploiting

 object technology in the form of portable and interoperable class

 libraries and frameworks."



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8.        OS/2 WARP GETS A+ IN COLLEGE NETWORKING CLASS



We recently completed an advanced networking class at a local technical

college.  The course used NetWare 3.x and 4.x in a lab environment.  30%

of our final grade was contingent on the final team projects.  The

majority of the students were network administrators for local companies

and the state; virtually all were Windows shops.  The projects were

based on NetWare.



For the final project, most of the teams chose to install and demonstrate

average network applications, all of which were DOS or Windows-based

running on NetWare.  Although NetWare uses DOS to bootstrap itself, it

is itself a full-fledged 32-bit NOS; you can remove DOS after it is up.

Unlike OS/2 LAN Server, the network supervisor has to sneaker-net to

another machine to log-in, install applications and manage the network.



Our team, understanding the true power of OS/2, decided to demonstrate

what no other OS could do.  We decided to install NetWare

4.1 Server on OS/2 using IPX, TCP/IP, and Token Ring as the underlying

protocols and topology; Netware 4.1 for OS/2 allows NetWare to run as a

native guest OS under OS/2, sharing memory and DASD concurrently.



For extra credit, we decided to run a NetWare Client on the *same*

machine using 1 network interface card (NIC).  The instructors had

never seen this (neither did we) and thought that this alone was

enough to claim success (in fact, they appeared skeptical).



Then came project presentation day: We fired up OS/2 Warp and spent a

few minutes demonstrating the Workplace Shell(tm).  You could sense the

excitement grow as we used OS/2's object-oriented drag-and-drop

interface.  Just for fun, we put all of the NetWare icons on the

LaunchPad and launched them.



Then we fired-up NetWare 4.1 Server in a window.  NetWare 4.1 runs in 8M

of RAM, but Novell strongly recommends 16MB.  We gave it 8M and it was

responsive on our 16MB 66Mhz 486 machine.  We gave the other 8MB of

RAM to OS/2. In a production environment, giving NewWare its full 16MB

compliment is highly recommended.  As always, the more RAM the better.



Next we fired up both an OS/2 NetWare client and a Windows NetWare client

and logged to the NetWare server as 2 different users - each having

their own environments and drive mappings.  You could hear gasps.



Our project objective's secure, we then ventured where no OS has gone

before.  We fired up NWADMIN, NetWare's Windows-based graphical network

administration program.  Next, added a few users and resources to our

new network.  The machine was very responsive considering the load we

had placed on it.  We then switched back to the WP shell and fired up

NetWare's graphical monitor.  We were now well beyond the scope of our

project.  Someone asked how much further could we push OS/2 multitasking

before the system would crash.  Remember, we were running on only a 16MB

machine with 2 full-fledged 32-bit operating systems running

concurrently, not to mention the multiple requestors and applications.



Our team had never tried to stress our system or OS/2 Warp beyond this

point in our preparation, but OS/2 Warp rose to the challenge.  We opened

window after window of independent DOS sessions and ran commands and

utilities, then we did the same with OS/2 windows.  We switched back to

look at our Windows programs, NetWare's real-time graphical monitor

application, our logged-on Windows and OS/2 clients, and various

applications all continued to run without even a pause; The NetWare

server on the same machine never broke a sweat.  OS/2 Warp handled

it all with grace.



In our post-demonstration Q&A, people asked more about OS/2 than our

project.  The BonusPak for OS/2 Warp, especially the Internet access,

added to their intrigue.  They asked what all of this cost.  We had to

repeat the answer a few times; they couldn't believe that an OS for less

then 80 could support Windows, DOS, OS/2, NetWare, Internet access,

drag-and-drop, and more, with the stability they witnessed.  We had a

pile of 25 rebate coupons from the OS/2 employee program; everyone

wanted one.



We're awaiting our final grade.  We know OS/2 got an A+.



Mike Iantosca  (NSD)

Terry Olenchuk (NHD)



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9.               SMALLTALK INDUSTRY COUNCIL FORMED



IBM is one of eleven companies that joined in the formation of

the Smalltalk Industry Council (STIC). This nonprofit trade

association was formed to promote growth in the Smalltalk market.

Other initial members of STIC include: American Management Systems,

Easel Corporation, Knowledge Systems Corp., ParcPlace Systems and

Object Technology International Inc.



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10.      WHITE PAPER ON TALIGENT AND IBM PLANS



 A new white paper - CommonPoint Application System - is

 now available.



 This paper is intended to give an overview of Taligent's

 CommonPoint application system and IBM's plans to deliver

 products based on it. This paper is intended for a general

 audience that has some familiarity with the concepts of object

 oriented programming.



 The paper covers:

     Taligent's evolution

     Taligent's product lines

     A CommonPoint Overview

     IBM's product plans

     The market focus for CommonPoint

     CommonPoint's Advantages

     CommonPoint Development Tools Coverage

     CommonPoint's Competition

     CommonPoint's positioning within IBM's OO family

     Summary





This White Paper is available on IBM's Taligent Project Office

Home Page with address:



   http://w3.austin.ibm.com/austin/projects/taligent/homepage/TPA1.HTM



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