

  THE OS/2 WARP WEEKLY - A production of PSP Worldwide Marketing Support

      Covering information relevant to OS/2 Warp and LAN Server

            ISSUE 23- 7/07/95 (A real collector's item)



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The OS/2 Warp Weekly is now available on the Internet. See PSPINFO to

find out how to get to the Internet version of this newsletter.





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                        CONTENTS



1.  OS/2 WARP "INSURES" SUCCESS

2.  IBM RESULTS SYSTEM SETS RECORD

3.  IBM'S INTERNET PUBLISHING EDITION FOR OS/2

4.  OS/2:  PART OF THE FABRIC OF YOUR LIFE

5.  IBM PREPS OS/2 WARP SERVER FOR BETA

6.  FEEDBACK FROM PC EXPO: COLORWORKS AND OS/2 WARP WOW CROWD

7.  NEW UTILITIES FOR OS/2

8.  TCP/IP RESOURCE ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB

9. SECANT TECHNOLOGIES RELEASES OS/2 CONTROL PACKAGE

10. WARP'D HUMOR



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1.                      OS/2 "INSURES" SUCCESS



   The following comments were overheard on the Canopus forum on

   COMPUSERVE:



   "I believe OS/2's penetration into the banking and insurance

   industries is driven by:



   a) OS/2's general reliability in comparison to the competition, and

   b) OS/2's ability to integrate very well with IBM mainframe software

   and systems.



   Those are two reasons why we use OS/2.  We occupy a small niche in

   the insurance industry and are nowhere near the size of State Farm,

   Allstate, BlueCross etc. We have about $5 billion of insurance

   inforce.



   OS/2 has worked great for us and we're still running OS/2 2.11 with

   Netware 4.1. We've tested version 3.0 and it works even better.

   We have no intention or desire to use anything else."



   Tony Curran-Dorsano

   North Central Life Insurance Company



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2.    IBM RESULTS SYSTEM SETS RECORD AT LAKE LANIER

             NATIONAL ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS



   Gainesville, GA, June 22, 1995 . . . When 1,000

   athletes compete in over 40 US Rowing National

   Championships races this week, the Results System that

   will time 1996 Olympic Games sports will be put through

   its paces in a tower overlooking the Lake Lanier rowing

   course.



   A team of professionals from The Atlanta Committee

   for the Olympic Games (ACOG) and Integrated Systems

   Solutions Corporation, an IBM subsidiary, developed the

   results application which assembles, calculates and

   distributes sports results to officials and scoreboards.

   Final tallies are collected at the venue on an IBM

   personal computer Local Area Network (LAN) server using

   OS/2* and DB2* database software for OS/2. The data is

   transferred 55 miles south to the Atlanta IBM System/390*

   central Results System, which in turn distributes the

   information to highspeed document printers for reports

   to the media.



   The 1996 Centennial Olympic Games will feature 26

   sports, 37 sporting disciplines groups of related

   competitions) and 271 medal events. Most activities will

   be centered in and around Atlanta, but some of the

   competition venues will be located in other Georgia

   cities as well as Tennessee, Alabama, Florida and

   Washington, D.C. Beyond the requirement for sub-second

   speed and uninterrupted service, a further challenge to

   Results System developers is that Olympic sports come in

   four categories -timed, judged, head-to-head and team --

   and each has its own design and technology requirements.



   "During this event, we're testing -- for the first

   time -- our Results System's link to the mainframe and

   to the Xerox document printers that provide information

   to the press and competition management," says Bruce

   Taylor, IBM Results project manager for ACOG. "We'll

   upload the results from our PC venue server to the

   S/390* server at ACOG's Atlanta data center. The system

   automatically sends commands to the printers at Lake

   Lanier to provide printed results information for the

   media covering the event."



   Input to ACOG's IBM Results System comes from

   SWATCH** Timing devices activated by field judges at the

   500, 1,000 and 1,500 meter marks and at the finish line.



   "The IBM/ACOG Technology team has a very challenging

   responsibility to develop software for 37 different

   Olympic Games sporting disciplines," says Namik

   Djumisic, ACOG program director, Results Services. "The

   team not only has to make sure that our system is

   operational now, they must be able to adapt to rules

   changes and any new conditions that pop up during these

   test events."



   IBM Timed Sports project manager Jim Thompson adds,

   "Because we'll have several hundred more athletes

   competing in the Nationals than in the Olympic Games,

   this is an excellent opportunity to test as many

   functions and systems as we possibly can. For example,

   the IBM Results operation must be flexible enough to

   accommodate a series of different progressions -- heats,

   semi-finals and finals -- based on numbers of crews entered."



   The Olympic Games Results team is testing its central

   Technical Operations Center (TOC) link to the rowing

   venue at Lake Lanier. The system automatically alerts

   technical experts in Atlanta to any problems at the

   venue so they can help on-site TOC staff  people fix

   them as quickly as possible. As the central information

   "warehouse" and server for ACOG's multi-tiered, multi-

   platform client/server architecture -- spanning the

   entire Olympic enterprise -- the S/390 host in Atlanta

   functions as the primary DB2 database repository for the

   Results System.



   Mara Keggi, ACOG Rowing Competition manager and

   former Olympic competitor, recalls that ACOG/IBM

   development team leaders became familiar with the sport

   and its rules by attending a number of competitions

   including the World Rowing Championships. "It was good

   for us to see that the people who are developing our

   software -- and the interfaces with television and

   SWATCH Timing -are so committed to understanding the

   sporting events," she says.



   As the worldwide information technology sponsor, IBM

   is providing systems and people to help plan, manage and

   run the Olympic Games through the year 2000.  For more

   information about the company's integrated information

   solutions, the IBM Home Page can be found at

   http://www.ibm.com on the Internet World-Wide Web.  As

   the Official Internet Information Systems Provider for

   ACOG, IBM provides information on the 1996 Centennial

   Olympic Games at http://www.atlanta.olympic.org on the

   WWW.

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   **   Trademark of SWATCH Timing.



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3.            IBM'S INTERNET PUBLISHING EDITION FOR OS/2



    IBM has announced the release of the IBM Electronic Publishing

    Edition for OS/2 Version 2.0.   The IBM Electronic Publishing

    Edition, a function of IBM WorkGroup, will enable customers to

    provide entire libraries of documents via the Internet World Wide

    Web (WWW).



    The past several years have seen dramatic growth in the use of the

    Internet as a medium for electronic publishing. With IBM Electronic

    Publishing Edition for OS/2 customers can create and serve

    information to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) browsers connected to

    the WWW or their own internal corporate networks. The information is

    stored in a virtual library which is composed of books, bookshelves,

    and collections.  This book metaphor provides an easy to understand

    and intuitive model for readers who may not be familiar with online

    viewing tools.



    Compared to the use of standard HTML and GIF files in other WWW

    libraries, IBM Electronic Publishing Edition for OS/2 offers

    significant advantages to customers:



    * The capability of building books and bookshelves from a wide

      variety of input sources.

    * Support for many document elements, including those not directly

      supported in HTML, such as complex tables.

    * Fuzzy and morphological full-text searching across entire

      documents and bookshelves (not just the currently loaded

      HTML file).

    * Easier navigation within documents, via a button bar with

      intuitive icons.

    * The ability for a single server to serve books and bookshelves

      from its own or from multiple file storage via remote file systems.

      The actual location is not part of the Universal Resource Locator

      (URL) of the document and is transparent to the reader.

    * Books can be viewed across the WWW or by LAN connected

      workstations on  multiple platforms from the same library.

    * The BookManager book format allows much more content (up to

      10 times more) to be stored on the same amount of disk space.

    * Each electronic book is a single readily portable and self-

      contained file, reducing the need to manage many separate HTML and

      GIF files.



    WHAT DO YOU GET FOR UNDER $2000?



    IBM Electronic Publishing Edition for OS/2 comes with everything you

    need to create and distribute your documents on the WWW:



    * IBM BookManager BUILD/2 Version 2.0 - for building books from

    popular word processor (Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, AmiPro, and

    FrameMaker) files

    * IBM BookManager BUILD SGML for OS/2 Version 2.0 - for building

    books from documents authored in Standard Generalized Markup Language

    * Language Dictionaries - for building your books in multiple

    national languages

    * IBM BookManager BookServer for World Wide Web for OS/2, Version

    2.0 - for serving your books across the WWW



    In addition, to provide these same books to your readers who are not

    connected to an Internet Protocol network the customer will be

    entitled to a total of 10 licenses of the following products:



    * IBM BookManager READ/2 Version 1.2.2 - for viewing your books on

    an OS/2 workstation

    * IBM BookManager READ for Windows Version 2.0 - for viewing your

    books on a Windows workstation



    For further information, please contact Bob McMullan at

    rlmcmul@ibm.net or at (612)786-1313.



    In addition, visit their Web Site at



    "http://booksrv2.raleigh.ibm.com.





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4.                OS/2:  PART OF THE FABRIC OF YOUR LIFE



   Did you know that 85 percent of the world's coffee is traded on OS/2?



   Sources tell us that J. Aron and company, a commodity trading firm in NY

   and a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, trades 85 percent of the world's coffee.

   Their trading system of choice?  OS/2|





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5.              IBM PREPS ENTRY-LEVEL WARP SERVER FOR BETA

                         Mary Jo Foley, PCWeek, 7-2-95



   IBM this month will start beta testing the entry-level version of

   its Warp Server, which will be followed closely by the advanced

   Warp Server version.





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6.      FEEDBACK FROM PC EXPO: COLORWORKS AND OS/2 WARP WOW CROWD

                     Timothy J. Hamilton



  On of the best booths (OS/2 related or not) at PC EXPO was SPG

  ColorWorks.  Joel, one of the developers, was manning the booth.

  He clearly likes the product and believes in it. For those of you not

  familiar with ColorWorks, it is a high-end image editing application

  that utilizes the true promise of OS/2's multithreading. ColorWorks

  does things that cannot in principle be done in Windows 3.1

  or even Windows 95, but probably only in Windows NT.  And ColorWorks

  has a memory footprint of only 1Mb for the application itself.



  While I was there, a couple arrived wanting to know what Warp

  multithreading was all about.  So, I took them over to the SPG

  ColorWorks booth and left them with Joel.  Joel showed them what

  OS/2 Warp is all about without the marketing hype and without any

  Microsoft bashing.



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7.        NEW UTILITIES FOR OS/2 (UPDATED 1 JULY 1995)



   These files (and many more popular utilities for OS/2)are available

            via FTP from hobbes.nmsu.edu or ftp.cdrom.com

                    In Europe look to ftp.leo.org





  Blackout            A DPMS (Green) Monitor

  ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/unix/black093.zip



  DMaster 2.21        File/Disk Manager

  ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/diskutil/ilgdm221.zip



  FileBar             Shell Replacement

  ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/wpsutil/fileb205.zip



  File Manager/2      File/Disk/Archive Manager

  ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.4/os2/incoming/fm2-233a.zip



  PMDiff              Text File Comparison

  ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/diskutil/pmdiff30.zip



  SIO                 Replacement Comm Drivers

  ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/drivers/sio150.zip



  WPSBackup           Save/Restore WPS Desktop

  ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/wpsutil/wpsbk401.zip



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8.             TCP/IP RESOURCE ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB



  The Web page at the following URL lists all known shareware/freeware

  /demoware TCP/IP applications for OS/2 and is broken down into

  categories:



  http://wc62.residence.gatech.edu/sorensen/tcpip.html



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9.  SECANT TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF OS/2 CONTROL PACKAGE



  Secant Technologies has released the ObjectPM Control Pack library for

  OS/2.  This package offers over a dozen control types that extend the

  set of controls supplied by OS/2 Presentation Manager.  It is also the

  first control package to support the PMCX control window specification

  allowing these controls to be used with products such as the IBM

  Universal Resource Editor and Prominare Designer. The PMCX

  specification is the latest control extension similar in concept to

  the VBX specification in Windows.



  "These controls will be a welcome addition to any OS/2 programmer's

  tool set" according to senior architect Michael Flis.  The product

  includes features such as multi-column list-boxes and edit masks.



  For more infomation contact Secant Technologies, 23811 Chagrin Blvd.

  Suite 344, Beachwood, OH, (216) 595-3830.  Additional information and

  samples are available from the Secant World Wide Web home page at

  http://www.secant.com, or email at info@secant.com.



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10.                      WARP'D HUMOR



   Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?



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