Information source: IBM Info
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- page index:
(red) Sumitomo
Bank in Japan (1)
(blue)
Banca Commerciale Italiana (2)
(green)
QBE Insurance in Australia (3)
(magenta)
NationsBank (4)
(brown)
Chinese Ministry of Electronics Industry (5)
(other
green) Data Control Informatica (6)
(dark
blue) Wachovia Corporation (7)
(light
magenta) Japan's telecommunications giant NTT (8) -
- Four Million Candles on OS/2 Warp's First Birthday Cake
- AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 11, 1995 ... Since exploding the hourglass
one year ago today to launch OS/2* Warp with events in New York,
London and Sydney, IBM has chalked up impressive results around the
world. Nearly 4 million copies of OS/2 Warp have been sold in the
last year and more than 125 software developers have announced plans
to offer new native OS/2 applications, adding to the 2,500 OS/2
applications on the market today.
- When OS/2 Warp was announced last year, IBM made a promise to
deliver a family of products based on the OS/2 Warp cornerstone.
That promise has been kept, as IBM has delivered users, OS/2 Warp
Connect and its AttachPak for small workgroups and autonomous
departments, the OS/2 Warp Family FunPak games and entertainment
package, the beta version of OS/2 Warp Connect (PowerPC Edition),
the beta version of OS/2 Warp Server, the beta version of OS/2
Directory and Security Services and the beta version of OS/2 Warp
Entertainment Toolkit for developers.
- More worldwide milestones Major OS/2 successes worldwide during
recent monthsinclude:
- o September 1995: Banca
Commerciale Italiana (Comit) in Italy announces the start of
its rollout of a leading-edge banking information system based on
OS/2 to more than 10,000 users;
- o September 1995: Sumitomo
Bank in Japan purchases 400 OS/2 licenses to serve their
3,000 desktop clients as part of a joint client system integration
project with NEC to manage its domestic credit online system;
- o September 1995: QBE
Insurance in Australia, one of the largest general insurance
companies in the country, announces plans to install OS/2 Warp in
over 70 branches nationwide;
- o September 1995: in the first weeks after it begins selling PCs
preloaded with Windows95, German PC manufacturer Vobis reports 50
percent of its sales are of systems preloaded with OS/2 Warp;
- o September 1995: NEC begins preloading its version of OS/2 Warp
on its PC in Japan;
- o September 1995: NationsBank
starts second major regional development of ist Model Banking
system, a cross-state OS/2-based client/server application. Phase II
sees up to 2,500 OS/2 clients and 400 servers brought online in
Florida, joining the 1700 clients and 250 servers already in use
throughout Georgia;
- o August 1995: Compaq announces the availability of OS/2 Warp
and OS/2 LAN Server 4.0 on SmartStart 2.3, the newest version of its
preloaded tool for integrating and installing server software;
- o August 1995: Chinese
Ministry of Electronics Industry signs a Statement to use
OS/2 Warp and endorses it as a preferred product - the first time
China's MEI has endorsed a software product;
- o June 1995: Data Control
Informatica, an educational services firm in Brazil, orders
100,000 copies of OS/2 Warp to distribute through 47 schools across
Brazil for training PC users;
- o June 1995: Wachovia
Corporation, one of North Carolina's largest banks, invests
$30 million to standardize on an OS/2 Warp-based retail system
network throughout 500 branches;
- o May 1995: Japan's
telecommunications giant NTT Corporation buys 20,000 OS/2
licenses and commits to an additional 20,000 to be rolled out
through 1997.
- More awards
- OS/2 Warp has picked up 23 awards since its release last year,
including InfoWorld Readers' Choice Product of the Year, PC Magazine
#1 for User Satisfaction, PC World Product of the Year, Byte Readers
Choice Software Product of the Year and the just announced Best
Operating System of the Year at the UK Computing Awards for
Excellence. In total, OS/2 has won 70 industry awards since
December, 1992, including editors choice awards, user awards and
technical awards.
- "It's been a great year for Warp," said Dan
Lautenbach, IBM vice president, Personal Software Products division.
"Our installed base is growing, with 10 million OS/2 users
worldwide, in markets from small office and home users to large
corporations with multiple-processor machines. We have aggressive
plans for OS/2 Warp in 1996 as we continue to enhance this powerful
and robust product family."
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Home Page at http://www.ibm.com
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of prior IBM product press releases.
- Dial 1-800-IBM-4FAX and enter "99" at the voice menu.
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