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Source: Adam Bradley (atbradley@alt.net)
Moderator: Dirk Terrell (admin@os2ss.com)
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The following is excerpted from the most recent Stardock News email:


IBM moves forward with OS/2...

Once again there is question about what OS/2's future is.
A leaked IBM confidential document revealed that IBM is 
pushing on JAVA in order to ensure that customers have 
multiple OS options other than OS/2 at some future date.  
This was taken as "proof" that IBM is abandoning OS/2.

In reality, IBM is looking to further segment its 
development efforts as the PC software market continues to 
expand.  Aurora, the upcoming IBM OS/2 server will have a 
ton of new features including JFS (a new file system) and a 
great deal of great configuration tools for servers.

Warp 2000, the next version of the client is not officially 
announced yet but Stardock and IBM are in negotiation to 
work together on enhancing the client.  Warp 2000 would 
essentially be Aurora minus HPFS386 and other server 
features to get the price down.  The client's availability 
is almost certain because of the simple fact that OS/2 Warp 
4, out of the box, is not year 2000 compliant.  Warp 2000 
will also probably be a lot slimmer than OS/2 Warp 4.  This 
is all rumor here folks but don't expect voice type or 
Opendoc or other largely unused components to be in there 
(except maybe as unsupported Bonuspak features).  This is 
not official from IBM by any means, just from having talked 
to people in the know.

At the same time, http://www.os2ss.com/win32-os2/ where you 
can find the new version of Win32 to OS/2 converters, has 
made it possible to play Win32 games under OS/2.  
Ironically, this means that a Warp 2000, with its SMP 
support, may actually be a pretty killer end user OS.  With 
every major program written for Linux being rewritten for 
OS/2 (via Xfree86), there's really nothing users are going 
without.





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