THE OS/2 WARPFLASH  -  Issue #13 (May 8, 1995)
A Weekly Update On The World Of OS/2 and LAN Server
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                         CONTENTS

  1.   OS/2 RATED NUMBER ONE SERVER IN "COMPUTERWORLD" BUYERS SURVEY
  2.   OS/2 WARP AND LAN SERVER ON TRACK, IN COLLEGE, AND DOING BILLS
  3.   IBM DEMO GOD ON E-TV
  4.   THE LATEST OS/2 WARP MOMENTUM NEWS 
  5.   OS/2 WARP IN PC NOVICE MAGAZINE
  6.   NEW CLIENT/SERVER BOOK AVAILABLE
  7.   OS/2 WARP - LET THE GAMES BEGIN
  8.   OS/2 WARP AT SPRING COMDEX
  9.   LAN SYSTEMS JUMPSTART PROGRAM
 10.   NEW BOOK EXPLAINS OS/2 GRAPHICS INTERFACE
 11.   NAVIGATING THE INTERNET WITH OS/2 WARP
 12.   OBJECT TECHNOLOGY - IBM'S OT PAGE DEBUTS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
 13.   AVARICE - A NEW OS/2 GAME NOW IN BETA
 14.   IBM UNVEILS NEW DB2 PRODUCTS
 15.   1995 ISV ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR OS/2 WARP
 16.   THE  *NEW* NORTH AMERICAN DEVELOPER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM


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1.   OS/2 RATED NUMBER ONE SERVER IN "COMPUTERWORLD" BUYERS SURVEY

 OS/2 was rated number one when compared with Novell NetWare 4.1,
 Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 and "Unix" in a recent Computerworld
 survey of 450 users of desktop and server operating systems.

 The April 24 article in Computerworld titled "IBM OS/2 Wins Tech
 Points" reported on the results of a recent Buyers' Satisfaction
 Scorecard survey.  OS/2 was rated best in 5 of 8 categories
 including reliability, multitasking, speed, recovery from
 failures, and technical support, and was rated best overall.

 OS/2 also was rated number one on the desktop compared to
 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5 and the Microsoft
 Windows 95 beta.

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2.  OS/2 WARP AND LAN SERVER ON TRACK, IN COLLEGE, AND DOING BILLS


 IBM ROLLS OUT CHINESE OS/2 WARP IN SHANGHAI; CHINESE RAILWAYS GET
 ON BOARD
 Business Wire via First!, 4-27-95

 The Chinese Ministry of Railways announced a pilot program with
 IBM to put the new Chinese version of OS/2 Warp in all of China's
 railway stations.  There are approximately 1800 stations. One
 the tasks of the system will be to track the location of specific
 railroad cars.

 IBM TO OFFER SPECIAL COLLEGE PRICE FOR OS/2
 Reuters via First!, 4-27-95

 IBM is offering a specially priced college bookstore edition of
 OS/2 Warp.

 THE TRAVELERS' NEW DIRECTION
 Mary Hayes, Information Week, 5-8-95

 Travelers Insurance's new invoice system uses IBM PCs linked by
 LAN Server 4.0.

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 3.                   IBM DEMO GOD ON E-TV

 Channel surfers shouldn't miss E-TV's FYE! segment on the Internet to
 witness our very own David Barnes doing a little surfing of his
 own--Internet surfing, to be sure--using OS/2 Warp. Late night TV
 junkies should tune in Thursday, May 11 at 2:30 am. Prime-time TV
 watchers should tune in on Sunday, May 7 at 5:30 pm. These air times
 are EST.

 P.S. The segment already aired on
 -Sun. April 30, 8:00 am and 11:30 pm
 -Monday, May 1 10:30 am
 -Tuesday, May 2 at 7:00 pm
 -Wednesday, May 3 at 1:00 am

 David Barnes was recently honored as one of the 1995 Demo Gods by
 PC Letter.

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 4.         THE LATEST OS/2 WARP MOMENTUM NEWS 

 - IBM has sold over 2 million copies of OS/2 Warp since it began
 shipping in November, most of that through the retail channel and to
 new customers, bringing the  OS/2 installed base to well over 8 million.

 - IBM has sold over 50,000 LAN Server 4.0 licenses since the launch of
 LAN Server 4.0 in October.  It currently has over 9% market share,
 second only to Novell's NetWare, up two share points from the same
 time last year  (source:IDC).

 - OS/2 outsold Windows NT 2-to-1 as an applications server in 1994.
 There are over 800,000 OS/2 applications servers installed, compared to
 75,000 NT servers (IDC).

 - In March, OS/2 Warp won seven industry awards, most notably InfoWorld's
 Readers Choice award for best product of 1994, and the Software
 Publishers Association's "Codie" for best business software.

 - LAN Server 4.0 won LAN Magazine's Departmental Network Operating
 System of the Year award at Networld + Interop.

 - In the first 3 months of 1995, 17 major software developers have
 announced plans to develop over 30 native OS/2 Warp applications on
 both Intel and PowerPC platforms, including Adobe, Corel, Computer
 Associates, MacroMedia, Sybase, Frame, etc.

 - The IBM PC Company began preloading OS/2 Warp on desktop PCs and
 announced plans to preload OS/2 Warp on all of its 8mb machines.

 - OS/2 outsold Windows NT 2-to-1 as an applications server in 1994.
 There are over 800,000 OS/2 applications servers installed, compared to
 75,000 NT servers (IDC).

 - In the first quarter of 1995, IBM released the "fullpack" version
 of OS/2 Warp, which is the version the installed base will generally
 use to upgrade. We released PC DOS 7.0 to industry acclaim.
 We sent OS/2 for the
 PowerPC into its first phase of Beta testing, and OS/2 Warp Connect,
 the network-savvy client, into its third and final phase of testing.

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 5.           OS/2 WARP IN PC NOVICE MAGAZINE


 The June 1995 issue of PC NOVICE Magazine features 2 stories on OS/2 WARP
 by Trevor Meers.

 The first "Managing Files in OS/2 WARP" is very informative and
 "how-to-do".

 The second is very comprehensive about WARP and includes some side-bars
 with quotes from Jeff Howard (OS/2 brand manager).  The OS/2 BonusPak is
 mentioned  "...applications bundled with an
 operating system. They're sometimes like cheap prizes in cereal boxes,
 but IBM'S BonusPak is like finding $100 in the Apple Jacks."

   F.Y.I. The Editorial Staff is at 800-544-1264 and Authorization for
          Reprints is 800-334-7458.

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 6.            NEW CLIENT/SERVER BOOK AVAILABLE

 Real World Client/Server, a new book by IBM's Dr. Steve Krantz, is
 now available from Maximum Press.  The book is a practical guide for
 planning, migrating and installing a client/server computing network.
 It contains a wealth of practical information, based on the author's
 experience leading a large-scale migration to an OS/2 client/server,
 Lotus Notes environment at IBM's Boca Raton, Florida facility.  Topics
 include:

  - Client/server computing basics
  - Business re-engineering
  - Total quality management teams
  - Building your client/server roadmap
  - Client/server infrastructure: hardware and software
  - User communication, education and support

 Real World Client Server (375 pages, U.S. $29.95, ISBN 0-9633214-7-1)
 may be ordered directly from the publisher by calling (800) 989-6733
 or by faxing Visa / Master Card info to (615) 254-2408. For more
 information, contact Linda Kean:  fax (301) 598-2514 or e-mail
 75662.2304@CompuServe.Com.

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 7.           OS/2 WARP - LET THE GAMES BEGIN

 This was the theme for OS/2 at the Game Developers Conference held
 earlier this week in Santa Clara, California. Many gamers are taking
 a serious, closer look at OS/2 as a gaming platform based on OS/2's
 growing install base and the announcement of the OS/2 Entertainment
 Toolkit.

 Aside from a three hour lecture to a packed house on OS/2 as a viable
 game platform, IBM displayed four OS/2 pedestals. The first pedestal
 was aimed at showing different development tools such as the
 SMART TOOL, the Developer Connection and DIVE. DIVE stands for
 Direct Interface Video Extension and it makes sure the performance
 of games does not suffer from the overhead of dealing with a GUI
 interface.

 The other pedestals in the IBM booth were an OS/2 Entertainment
 pedestal showing Doom for OS/2 Warp, Galactic Civilization, SimCity,
 and a beta from Stardock Systems Inc. of a new game called Avarice.
 The Multi-media Publishing studio pedestal demo'ed Hyper man and
 Rapid Assault. The last pedestal featured ICSS speech recognition
 software.

 If you have more questions on the conference or are interested
 in Games, please visit the OS/2 Game Homepage at
 HTTP://WWW.AUSTIN.IBM.COM/OS2GAMES. Right now the page is
 geared mainly towards game developers but they have some user
 information and they are planning to add games in the future.

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 8.              OS/2 WARP AT SPRING COMDEX

 Lots of good stuff happening with OS/2 Warp at Spring Comdex.
 The IBM booth was jammed... There were 35 ISVs demonstrating
 applications like Global Village, DOOM/2 and a SOHO financial
 package like Quicken.  Also in the booth was a virtual reality
 race car game on OS/2 where 3 people can race at a time, a demonstration
 of Serial Storage architecture and IBM Workgroup.

 IBM also supported a very large test drive center for OS/2. There
 were 40 systems up and running and a constant line to get to
 one of them.

 Team OS/2 was at Comdex in force. They go around the show floor
 and install OS/2 on as many different systems as they are allowed.
 Once they have OS/2 on a machine, they put a collar around the machine
 declaring, "I've been Warped".

 At a user group presentation, Paul Giangarra demonstrated using
 infra-red connections (without any cables) to transfer a file
 from one machine to another and then print a file. The Infra-red
 capability will be available in OS/2 Warp Connect.

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 9.              LAN SYSTEMS JUMPSTART PROGRAM

 The LAN Systems Marketing Support Department traveled to Mexico City,
 Mexico, last month, to join forces with their hosts, IBM Personal
 Systems Marketing and Business Partner Support organizations, to
 present the LAN Server 4.0 "JUMPSTART" Program to over one hundred
 resellers, distributors and dealers in Mexico.

 The "Jumpstart" was designed to provide a two-day introductory course
 at no charge for key Business Partners in the Software Channel. This
 consisted of technical training, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops
 of IBM's award-winning LAN Server 4.0 product.

 Additional topics included, "IBM's Personal Systems Software Strategy and
 Directions",  "How to Sell LAN Server", "Remote Access with LAN
 Distance " and  "Migrating from Netware to LAN Server 4.0."

 At the close of the event each attendee was encouraged to pursue
 professional certification as a LAN Server Administrator and LAN Server
 Engineer. In fact, IBM offered complementary Professional Certification
 vouchers for the required testing at a convenient site in Mexico City.

 The "Jumpstart" ends its Latin American program with a session in
 Sao Paulo, Brazil. However, due to the phenomenal success of this
 program in Mexico, similar sessions are being scheduled to be rolled
 out in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Asia/Pacific region.

 For information on the Jumpstart program, send e-mail to lansystems@vnet.ibm.com

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 10.        NEW BOOK EXPLAINS OS/2 GRAPHICS INTERFACE

 A new book from John Wiley & Sons addresses the Graphics Programming
 Interface (GPI) for OS/2 Warp, providing step-by-step instructions and
 accompanying coding examples.  The book, written by Stephen Knight and
 Jeffrey Ryan, covers the full range of OS/2 GPI functions, including
 the latest additions to OS/2 Warp Version 3.

 Programming the OS/2 Warp Version 3 GPI includes:

  - Drawing primitives
  - Working in coordinate spaces
  - Character fonts, metrics, sizing and positioning
  - Metafiles
  - Transformations
  - Over 60 screen shots, drawings and tables
  - Accompanying disk includes:
    . Graphics editor application
    . Text browser file
    . Query printer information
    . Other utilities

 The book (416 pages, $39.95 U.S.)  can be ordered as ISBN
 0-471-10718-2.   Publisher's order line:
 (800) CALL-WILEY (800-225-5945).  Fax:  (908) 203-3200.  For more
 information, e-mail:  CompBks@JWiley.Com.

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 11.         NAVIGATING THE INTERNET WITH OS/2 WARP

 The latest book from author Herb Tyson is a step-by-step guide to
 using OS/2 Warp's new BonusPak Internet Access Kit.  It covers
 connecting to the Internet using the IBM Internet Connection
 (Advantis) and other Internet providers, as well as the BonusPak tools
 provided for using the service:  UltiMedia Mail/2, NewsReader/2,
 Gopher, WebExplorer, FTP-PM, and Telnet.  The book also documents
 other BonusPak Internet tools such as ping, nslookup, hostname, and
 finger.

 The book is an excellent companion for IBM's Warp BonusPak CD-ROM,
 providing detailed installation, configuration, usage, and
 troubleshooting advice for all OS/2 Warp users.  Additional topics
 include:

  - Internet basics
  - Getting connected to Advantis and other Internet providers
  - Third-party OS/2 Internet tools
  - Tips, problems, and solutions
  - Troubleshooting tools
  - OS/2 Internet resource directory
  - OS/2 Internet sites for FTP, Gopher, World Wide Web, and more

 Navigating the Internet with OS/2 Warp can be ordered as ISBN
 0-672-30719-7.  Publisher phone orders:
 (800) 428-5331 or (317) 581-3500; fax: (800) 448-3804 or (317)
 581-3550.  For more information, on CompuServe:  Go Macmillan;
 Internet:  http://www.mcp.com or ftp.mcp.com.

 Sams Publishing, a division of Macmillan Computer Publishing, is a
 leading supplier of books about OS/2 and related products, and is a
 member of IBM's Independent Vendor League (IVL).  The IVL supports
 individuals and companies who develop and market books, newsletters,
 magazines, training videos, courseware and consulting services for
 OS/2 and other IBM personal software products.

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 12. OBJECT TECHNOLOGY - IBM'S OT PAGE DEBUTS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

 IBM's Object Strategy & Implementation group has established an
 Object Technology page on the World Wide Web.  The page can be
 accessed via the following URL address:

        http://www.torolab.ibm.com/objects/

 or if accessing IBM's home page (http://www.ibm.com/) then select
 the 'Products, Services and Support' icon, locate the 'Advanced
 Technology' subsection and select 'Object Technology'.

 This page will serve as the entry point for Web users to explore
 IBM's Object Strategy, Business Value, Products, and Service Offerings.
 The page will also serve as a forum to highlight upcoming IBM Object
 Technology related events, promotions, and marketing information.

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 13. AVARICE - A NEW OS/2 GAME NOW IN BETA

In 1994 Stardock Systems, Inc (SDS) brought you Galactic Civilizations.
This year, we're bringing two games to OS/2, Entrepreneur, a real time
corporate conquest game designed by the designer of GalCiv, and Avarice,
a virtual reality game developed by the team at CSS!

The beta of Avarice will be coming out this Quarter and anyone interested
in getting involved on our latest OS/2 gaming project, then read on.

Avarice is a virtual reality game made exclusively for OS/2.   In it, you
explore a fully rendered world with a real time AI engine working in the
background.  It is similar to Myst but uses OS/2 to enhance performance
(threads loading your surroundings in the background) and to create a
truly living game (threads have NPC characters that you can interact
with and who move around).

The SRP when it comes out this Fall will be about $70 so this is a good
chance to not only have input on the game but to get the game at half
the price and get it sooner than anyone else.  It will REQUIRE a
DOUBLE SPEED CD-ROM.  I just demoed this game at the Game Developer's
conference in San Jose and we are still using floppies, it required two
boxes full of HD floppies to install!  You'll also want to make
sure you have an OS/2 supported sound card so that you can enjoy
the MMPM/2 sound and original musical score.

As you play AVARICE, you will:

- Explore a fully rendered, 3D world with hundreds of locations and
  thousands of pictures.
- Interact with thousands of objects at an unparalleled level of depth.
- Use a customizable interface that offers point and click, object
  oriented interaction.
- Exercise your intellect in a story filled with brain-twisting puzzles.
- Listen to digital sound effects and an original musical score.
- Interact with enigmatic characters that feature a revolutionary
  artificial intelligence engine.
- Enjoy realtime interactions with the game world in a low stress
  atmosphere.

THE BETA:

Beta testers will get to have input into:

o The game itself
o The manual
o The packaging

****************************************************************
BETA FORM

Name____________________________________________

Address ________________________________________

City/Zip/Country _______________________________

Payment Type
/ / VISA
/ / Mastercard
/ / Check

If Credit Card, # and expiration _____________________  ____

REQUIRES:
OS/2 WARP
8 megs ram
2 speed CD ROM
486DX or SX CPU or better
SVGA (256 colors)

Pick one
/ / Avarice beta program (includes final version free)
    $35 plus $10 shipping ($20 if outside USA/Canada)
/ / Avarice pre-order (final version only)
    $40 plus $5 shipping ($15 if outside USA/Canada)

/ / ENT AND Avarice beta programs (includes both betas and final GA)
    $60 plus $20 shipping ($40 if outside USA/Canada)

Make Checks payable to:
Stardock Systems Inc.
13405 Addison
Gibraltar MI 48173

Stardock: PHONE (313)/782-2248 USA
   FAX   (313)/207-0780 USA
   CompuServe: GO STARDOCK
   OS2BBS: Stardock forum
   Email: Wardell@ibm.net

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 14.     IBM UNVEILS NEW DB2 PRODUCTS


IBM has underscored its leadership in database technology by extending
the power of the IBM DATABASE 2 (DB2)* system to include multimedia and
other complex data types.  Now customers can use their relational
database systems to search, access, manipulate, and distribute both
multimedia and unstructured data, including text, audio, video, and
images ranging from fingerprints to seismic readings and medical X-rays.

The new relational extenders, part of DB2 Version 2 for OS/2* and AIX*,
were announced at DB/EXPO in San Francisco this week.  They allow users
to customize their DB2 systems -- without prerequisite new application
development -- using the standard Structured Query Language (SQL) for
relational databases.

SQL provides a single point of access to customer data.  Comparable to a
programmable TV remote control, it can be 'programmed' on the database
level to accept user-defined functions and data types.

Five new relational extenders -- for text, audio, video, image and
fingerprint data -- are now entering the beta test phase of their
development.  In addition, DB2 Version 2 offers users significant
improvements in operational capacity, performance, data integrity and
reliability.

IBM further strengthened its commitment to open systems by announcing
the intention to provide multiplatform support for DB2 Version 2 on
HP-UX**, SUN Solaris**, Windows NT** and Siemens Nixdorf SINIX**
platforms.  DB2 is fully scalable from small notebooks to massively
parallel processors.

Also announced was the general availability of DB2 Parallel Edition
Version 1, a solution that enables fast, accurate access to very large
databases.  The DB2 Parallel Edition extends the quality, functionality,
reliability and robustness of DB2 to massively parallel environments.

IBM has announced the following database products and enhancements:

      .  DataHub for UNIX Operating Environments**, a control
         point for managing both IBM and non-IBM relational
         databases;

      .  Visualizer Query for Windows, a decision-support tool;

      .  Stored procedure builder, an integrated BASIC development
         environment;

      .  Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA), the
         architecture for the DB2 engine;

      .  IMS Version 5.1, IBM's premier hierarchical database
         manager.


*  Indicates trademark or registered trademark of International Business
   Machines Corp.

** Other product or company names are trademarks or registered trademarks
   of their respective holders.


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 15. 1995 ISV ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR OS/2 WARP


Adobe Systems Incorporated:
  Acrobat Products

Arcada Software Corp.:
  Arcada Backup for OS/2 Warp

Artisoft Inc.:
  LANtastic 6.0 for OS/2

Attachmate Corportation:
  EXTRA! for OS/2

Borland International Inc.:
  Borland C++ for OS/2

Computer Associates' 4Home Productions:
  Kiplinger's Simply Money
  Simply Tax
  Simply Vacation
  Simply House
  Parents magazine's Simply Kids

Corel Corp.:
  CD Office (word processor, spreadsheet, database, graphics)
   Ventura Publishing
   CorelDRAW
   CorelFLOW
   CorelPresents

Frame Technology Corporation:
  FrameMaker
  FrameViewer

Genesys Information Systems Corp.:
  ImageServer 3.0

Intelligent Environments:
  Applications Manager, Version 4.4

Lotus Development Corp:
  SmartSuite 2.0 for OS/2

Macromedia:
  Director Player for OS/2 Warp

SPG Inc:
  ColorWorks for OS/2

Stac Electronics:
  Stacker 4.0 for OS/2 & DOS

Sybase Inc.:
  SYBASE System 10 product family
   SYBASE SQL Server
   SYBASE Replication Server
   SYBASE Workgroup SQL Server bundle

Sytron Corp.:
  Systos Premium v2.1
  Systos Autoloader v2.1 for OS/2

Novell Inc:
  OS/2 Integration Tools Disk for Word Perfect 6.1 for Windows

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 16. THE *NEW* NORTH AMERICAN DEVELOPER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

Effective today IBM's Solution Developer Organization is announcing
the creation of the North American Developer Assistance Program.

This new program provides
cohesive support, marketing programs along with software and hardware
discounts to Independent Software Vendors located in the United States
and Canada.  The goal of this program is to provide the best solution
developer support in the industry.

If you have any questions regarding the North American DAP program please
call the IBM Software Vendor Hotline at 1-800-627-8363 and/or visit the
IBM Solution Developer Home Page at http://www.austin.ibm.com/developer/


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possible; however, it is entirely possible that certain 
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