The Warp Wire - Issue #6
A Weekly Update On The World Of OS/2 and LAN Server

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                         CONTENTS

 1.A LITTLE SOMETHING ALL NT PROSPECTS AND CUSTOMERS SHOULD KNOW
 2.GET BACKSTAGE AT THE GRAMMY AWARDS WITH IBM'S OS/2 WARP
 3.4HOME GETS WARPED
 4.OS/2 WARPFEST
 5.IBM MULTIPAKS: OS/2 WARP AND PC DOS 7
 6.UNION BANK OS/2 IMPLEMENTATIONS
 7.THE INTERNET AT WORK: BEHIND THE SCENES AT G7 LIVE
 8.WARP TUNING TOOL

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 1.   A LITTLE SOMETHING ALL NT PROSPECTS AND CUSTOMERS SHOULD KNOW

 Any client that accesses an NT server must pay an access charge with
 a list price of about $39.95 (US$). This means that even MS brand clients such
 as Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT client (list price about US$319),
 or LAN MAN must pay money to Microsoft even though they have already
 paid for the software that contains the server requester code.
 Also even if a customer uses a non-MS product as a client, they must
 pay the access fee to legally access the NT server product.

 IBM, on the other hand, has a single list price of $50 that allows the
 customer to download the client code from LAN Server and then
 is automatically licensed to access the server. There is no access fee
 for a non-IBM client that accesses the LAN Server.

 And one more thing...The license agreement for Windows NT Server states
 that payment for the access privilege only entitles the client to access
 an NT server of version 3.5 or less. This means that when customers
 upgrade to the next server level, Microsoft is not obligated to give
 them access to the new server; they may require them to pay an access
 fee once again.

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 2.       GET BACKSTAGE AT THE GRAMMY AWARDS WITH IBM'S OS/2 WARP

 OS/2 Warp and the Internet provided music fans in 140 countries around
 the world a "virtual backstage pass" to the hippest event in the pop
 music industry.  This year, the 37th annual Grammy Awards will be
 "cybercast" worldwide on March 1 via the Internet.  While Paul Reiser
 hosts the festivities onstage, Adam Curry,former video jockey, will
 host the Grammy Awards cybercast backstage. Using OS/2 Warp, Curry
 will provide cyberpunks virtual backstage access to the biggest music
 party of the year.  Online subscribers can join the Grammy domain on
 the World Wide Web and "hang out backstage"  while simultaneously
 watching the CBS telecast.

 "The Internet is opening up new opportunities for business and
 entertainment, like giving net surfers unprecedented access to never
 before seen backstage action at the Grammy Awards.  And OS/2 Warp is
 just about the easiest way to get on the Internet -- you just point and
 click and you're there," said Curry.

 This cybercast was the first ever cybercast of a major awards ceremony.
 OS/2 Warp was the official sponsor of the chat rooms where fans could
 talk to their favorite music celebrities and their favorite celebrities
 could respond on line.

 OS/2 Warp's direct, comprehensive access to the Internet provided
 the easiest way to join the Grammy cybercast.  Warp users simply
 typed http://metaverse.com at the URL window on the Internet's World
 Wide Web.  Net surfers who don't have Warp yet could use an online
 service or alternate Internet provider to access the World Wide Web
 for the Grammy cybercast.


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 3.                       4HOME GETS WARPED

   ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE) via First -- 4Home  Productions, a
 Division of Computer Associates International, Inc.,  announced today
 that it will release five versions of the company's  lifestyle software
 titles for IBM's OS/2 Warp.  These are the first  4Home titles designed
 to take advantage of OS/2 Warp and adds to the  growing list of software
 programs supporting this operating system.

   The 4Home Productions' titles that will be implemented for OS/2  Warp
 include:

   o Kiplinger's Simply Money, an easy-to-use personal finance software
 program that increases personal productivity and features in-depth
 financial advice from the Kiplinger organization, a highly respected
 advisor in personal finance.

   o Simply Tax, a feature-rich tax preparation software program that
 includes tax tips from The Ernst & Young Tax-Saving Strategies Guide '95,
 a John Wiley & Sons publication.

   o Simply Vacation, two new multimedia CD-ROM titles that allow users to
 plan custom vacations.  The title has editions that cover  Hawaii and the
 Caribbean islands.

   o Simply House, a how-to multimedia CD-ROM title featuring expert  home
 improvement advice from The Stanley Complete Step-by-Step  Book of Home
 Repair and Improvement.

   o Parents magazine's Simply Kids, an electronic scrapbook and child
 development reference tool designed to help parents follow and record the
 stages of their children's lives in an innovative and fun format.  It
 features expert advice from Parents magazine.

  "We are pleased that 4Home has chosen to develop these titles for OS/2,"
 said James J. Gant, IBM's vice president for Solution Developer
 Operations. "4Home's lifestyle software products are a  fine addition to
 the growing number of OS/2 entertainment,  productivity and home business
 titles. Customers will derive real  value from having titles like
 Simply Tax and Kiplinger's Simply Money on the OS/2 Warp platform."

   "By making our titles available for the OS/2 Warp platform, we are
 providing an additional option for our customers," said George Kafkarkou,
 general manager of 4Home Productions.  "We are confident  that OS/2 Warp
 customers will find that the 4Home titles offer the  productivity and
 entertainment value that they seek."

   4Home Productions, headquartered in Islandia, New York, is a publisher
 of lifestyle software products designed to enhance personal productivity.
 4Home Productions is a Division of Computer Associates Intl, Inc.,
 (NYSE: CA), a multi-billion dollar software  company serving most of the
 world's major business, government, research and educational
 associations.

 For more information on 4Home Productions and/or any of their products,
 please contact 4Home  Productions at 1-800-773-5445.

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 4.                       OS/2 WARPFEST

 "OS/2 WarpFest" is an event that is happening all over Asian countries
 that is a combination of Seminars (including Live Demonstrations) and
 a testdrive center showing OS/2 Warp on various PC's from PC Vendors.

 There are two seminar/demo sessions, one showing OS/2 Warp in detail,
 and one showing OS/2 Warp combined with Advanced Networking (including
 systems management, CID, LAN connectivity, LAN Server and more).

 "OS/2 Warp Desktop Solution"  - Live OS/2 Warp demonstration showing
                                 Warp features and power in detail
                               - 2 Hour Demonstration

 "OS/2 Warp Advanced Networking Solutions"
                               - 3 Hour Demo/Presentation with Break
                               - Live OS/2 Warp demonstration
                               - Network connectivity with Warp
                               - Software Distribution (CID)
                               - Client/Server Systems Management
                               - LAN Server 4.0 Presentation/Demo

 People will also have the chance to Buy OS/2 Warp at the Fest.


 "OS/2 WarpFest" is happening in the following locations:

 February 27 & 28  ---> Manila, Philippines
 March 7           ---> Singapore
 March 8           ---> Bangkok, Thailand (Thai Version Warp Launch!)
                        (The Thai Version of Warp is AWESOME!)

 March 13          ---> Delhi, India
 March 15          ---> Madras, India
 March 21 & 22     ---> Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Warp Adv. Networking only
 March 24 & 25     ---> Kathmandu, Nepal
 March 27 & 28     ---> Bangladesh

 The following events, locations and target dates are being confirmed.
 "OS/2 WarpFest"

 March __ & __      ---> Jakarta, Indonesia
 April 10 week      ---> Bangalore, Bombay, Calcutta, (India)
 April 26, 27, & 28 ---> Malaysia
 April 3 & 4        ---> Bangkok, Thailand (Warp Adv. Networking)

 "Banking Solutions"

 April 17 week      ---> Minila, Philippines


 There are other locations being planned as well, but do not yet have
 confirmed target dates. For questions contact Doug Spencer in IBM
 Singapore.
 The presentations are being done by Douglas Spencer or Guy Belanger
 with local vendors participating.

 This is an event that provides all types of customer the opportunity
 to see OS/2 Warp and networking with Warp in a live demonstration.

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 5.             IBM MULTIPAKS: OS/2 WARP AND PC DOS 7

 IBM MultiPaks make it easy for computer system resellers to
 acquire IBM's highly acclaimed and popular OS/2 Warp and
 PC DOS 7 industry leading operating systems.  IBM MultiPkas
 are offered in 4 packages:  OS/2 Warp Version 3 and OS/2
 Warp Version 3 with WINOS2 (Microsoft's Windows(tm) 3.11
 support) Preload MultiPak, and PC DOS 7 Preload and
 Distribution MultiPak.

 MultiPaks are available through IBM Authorized Software
 Distributors and are more aggressively priced than the
 retail versions.  You can buy as few as one MultiPak (5
 software licenses).

 Each Preload MultiPak includes everything you need to
 install OS/2 or PC DOS on 5 Computer System Units.  Each
 MultiPak includes the necessary diskette media (and CD-ROM
 too with OS/2) to create a preloaded computer system unit
 for sale to an end-user.  Each MultiPak includes 5 end-user
 Program License Agreements and 5 concise users guides.  The
 PC DOS 7 Preload MultiPak also includes 5 sets of the
 program diskettes, whereas OS/2 Preload MultiPaks include
 one set of media for use in preloading - and - a diskette
 factory utility that, once installed, allows end-users
 to create their own set of backup diskettes.

 The PC DOS 7 Distribution MultiPak contains 5 PC DOS 7
 Program License Agreements ONLY.   This offering is priced
 below the Preload MultiPak because it does not contain
 media, nor the concise users guides.  The Distribution
 MultiPak requires you to have purchased at least one PC DOS
 7 Preload MultiPak in advance and retained one of the 5
 packages contained within.  The Preload package is used as
 the "master media" to create the preload images on a
 Computer System Unit for use with the Distribution MultiPaks.

 There is no Distribution MultiPak offering for OS/2 Warp.

 The remarketer of the MultiPak is responsible for providing
 end-user support for both PC DOS 7 and OS/2 Warp.  However,
 if needed, IBM's OS/2 Warp MultiPaks also include
 60 days of IBM service for end-users.

 Specific terms and conditions apply to the resale of IBM
 MultiPaks to end-users.  These terms are affixed to the
 outside of the MultiPaks and must be read and agreed to
 prior to opening a MultiPak carton.  The terms for resale of
 the OS/2 Warp product and those for the PC DOS 7 product differ slightly.

 IBM MultiPaks are only available from IBM Authorized Distributors
 and Remarketers.

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 6.                 UNION BANK OS/2 IMPLEMENTATIONS

 Union Bank has been using OS/2 in a number of small but key areas for
 several years now. These areas include:

 1) Acting as the server supporting their voice response customer
    service system (a dozen PS/2 95 servers running OS/2)
 2) The client workstation for application programmers
 3) Running the network support center help desk using IBM's SDPM software
 4) The workstations in a unique type of check cashing office.

 At the beginning of 1994, Union Bank decided to implement a new LAN
 based branch platform solution for each of their 230 branch offices
 throughout California. Initially it was decided to use OS/2 as the
 client workstation with Broadway and Seymour's PRISM development
 environment. It was also decided to use IBM's Communication Manager/2
 as the SNA gateway for each branch. (Until this time Union Bank had
 been using Netware for SAA as their standard gateway.) Union Bank
 also decided to use IBM's Communication Manager/2 as the 3270
 emulator for the clients. (Up to this point, Union Bank had been
 using DCA's emulators almost exclusively except within the application
 development community.) We are now looking at moving to the as yet
 unannounced IBM Personal Communications for OS/2 product for 3270
 emulation capability. The bank also evaluated and selected IBM's
 Anti-Virus/2 product to protect their client workstations. DCAF will
 be used to provide remote access and control for support personnel.

 Union Bank has about 80 Netware servers supporting the back office.
 In early 1994, Union Bank intended to put a Netware server in each
 office in order to provide print and file services but after
 reviewing several white papers, attending LAN Server presentations
 and after evaluating LAN Server 4.0, the decision to implement IBM's
 LAN Server instead of Netware was made in late 1994. The bank was
 also planning to implement Oracle as the branch database server
 but after attending a Toronto database briefing, benchmarking the
 respective databases with the support of IBM, discussing the
 future of DB2 with Janet Perna and reviewing the special bid prepared
 for Union Bank by the IBM team, the decision to implement DB2/2 as the
 standard database server for each branch was made in December of 1994.
 Union Bank has also signed a contract to use IBM's Visualizer product
 as the query tool for the database.


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 7.        THE INTERNET AT WORK: BEHIND THE SCENES AT G7 LIVE

 This letter from the editor describes how Tabor Griffin Communication
 published a daily electronic newsletter from the G7 Ministerial
 Conference.

   Dear Reader:

   The G7 Ministerial Conference has ended. Espace Leopold has been
 stripped of the high-tech trappings that filled its halls this weekend,
 and here, at G7 Live's office in the IBM A.K. Watson International
 Education Center at La Hulpe, Belgium, we are putting our final issue to
 bed.

   Many of you who we met at the conference and on the Net have wondered
 how we managed to produce a daily news magazine from a remote location
 half a world away from Tabor Griffin Communication's (TGC) headquarters
 in San Diego, Calif. USA. As many of you who are readers of WEBster and
 HPCwire already know, TGC has been publishing e-zines over the Net for a
 few years now, but, even with our experience, it would have been hard to
 have produced G7 Live without the support of the IBM Corporation.

   G7 Live was the brainchild of Herb Budd, IBM Scientific, Technical and
 Educational Industries, general manager. He decided to marry TGC's
 electronic publishing expertise and unique delivery software with IBM's
 technology and infrastructure to distribute to a worldwide Internet
 audience, a daily news magazine about the G7 Conference.

 ONE MORNING ON MY WAY TO THE OFFICE....
   It all started about two weeks ago when an IBM RISC System/6000
 arrived at TGC's office. Our system's administrator, Bart Grubb,
 immediately went to work modifying Tabor Griffin's delivery and list
 software program (developed at TGC specifically for Internet publishing)
 so that we could develop a system capable of handling the vision of the
 G7 Live project.

   Meanwhile, in La Hulpe, Belgium; Paris, France; and White Plains,
 N.Y.the IBM support team made arrangements for the ThinkPads,
 connections and other logistical details that would assure successful
 transfer of finished articles from Belgium to San Diego to your desktop
 e-mail box.

   On Monday, the G7 Live team arrived in Brussels and went to work
 developing the content of the first issue, as well as smoothing out some
 of the "speed bumps" on our new onramp to the Infobahn. By Thursday we
 were ready to switch into high gear and deliver our first issue of G7
 Live. After that issue was mailed, we packed up our "office" (two
 ThinkPads and a printer) and moved to the Espace Leopold in Brussels.
 Camped out in one of the translation booths overlooking the press
 center, we went to work.

 IT'S A LITTLE LIKE CONDUCTING A SYMPHONY
   There are many challenges to producing remote publications, and the
 orchestration involved is akin to conducting a symphony while travelling
 through the remote jungles of the Amazon. And, as the saying often goes
 in journalism, each edition is a minor miracle.

   After our writers and editors completed the final copies of the
 articles and the tables of contents, the files were transferred by ftp
 to the server in San Diego, where the table of contents was mailed
 to our readers. But even after the mailing started, the process
 continued as the files were converted to HTML (Hypertext Markup
 Language) and then ftp'ed from San Diego to White Plains, N.Y., where
 IBM's home page editors put them on the Web. And, voila, in one
 final flourish, up-to-the-minute news about the Global Information
 Infrastructure was at the fingertips of a worldwide audience.

   Herb Budd, probably summed up our project best.

   G7 Live was an example of "using the same technology that the
 conference was all about...It's becoming clear that the network and the
 whole GII is something that is going to happen and affect every aspect
 of our lives," he noted.

   "As we move forward globally to take advantage of the GII networking
 technology, G7 Live adds another level of excitement as we can now make
 this information available to individuals around the world as it
 happens," Thomas Tabor, president of TGC, added.

 THE REST OF THE STORY
   So you now have, as American radio commentator Paul Harvey is wont to
 say, "the rest of the story..."
                                 -- Dianna Husum, managing editor G7 Live

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8.                     WARP TUNING TOOL

 Clear & Simple, Inc.  has announced the third version of their book /
 disk combination called Performance Plus, a tuning and utility kit for
 OS/2 versions 2.X and Warp.  Sections for everyone from the novice to
 advanced user show how to get the best performance from an OS/2
 system.

 The companion diskette contains several OS/2 utility programs for
 performance tuning:

   OPTIMIZER     Displays performance-related CONFIG.SYS entries;
                 recommends optimum values for your system.

   DOS BLACKBOX  Optimizes DOS/Windows application settings.

   SIMPLECT      Simple Count is a graphical tool that displays
                 performance statistics.

   STATS         Shows performance increases or decreases resulting
                 from tuning adjustments.  Identifies bottlenecks.

 Utility programs are also provided for viewing OS/2 bitmaps, saving
 the Workplace Shell desktop, creating an emergency boot diskette or
 partition, monitoring swap file growth, making automatic file backups,
 mapping disk drives, managing directories, and more.  A copy of CPU
 Monitor Plus by BonAmi Software is included for monitoring CPU,
 memory, com port and disk usage.  A bonus diskette contains a
 collection of OS/2 bitmaps.

 Price: $39.95 U.S. plus $4.00 S&H.  Phone: 203-658-1204.  Fax:
 203-651-0354.  Internet: 75070.2520@CompuServe.Com.

 Clear and Simple 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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