
  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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