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Sources: Holger Veit, Ulf Jaehrig
Reply-to: veit@borneo.gmd.de, ulf@blackmoon.mannheim-netz.de
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Holger and Ulf both wrote in to give us a translation of the German
article recently mentioned on WarpCast
(http://www.os2ss.com/warpcast/wc484.html). Appearing in CHIP, a major
German computer magazine, the article read something like this:

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IBM: OS/2 will be renamed

The end of OS/2 has come - but for the name only. The operating system
itself is well, without changes. During the repositioning process from
the end user market into the server market, OS/2 had lost public
attention. At Comdex, the new CEO of IBM Germany, Christoph Rau, said
in an
exclusive interview with CHIP that a new name should lend new life to
OS/2. The next version 5 of OS/2 Warp Server will be called "NC
Server". Furthermore, CHIP discovered that the major new feature is
going to be an entirely new file system, the "journaled file system"
(JFS). This way, OS/2 is again one step before NT, whose new object
file system is still not in sight. A new version of the OS/2 client is
going to follow at the end of next year.
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