1. e-business Verbesserungen
2. Convenience packages
3. Hardware- und Device-Treiberverbesserungen
4. "Transition and product enhancement services"
"Defect support"

Dear VMware Customer,

We are contacting you because you have expressed an interest in VMware
support for OS/2 or have downloaded our experimental release of VMware with
support for OS/2 as a guest operating system. You and many other VMware
customers responded enthusiastically to the freedom our virtual machine
technology gave to run OS/2 applications on Linux and Windows PCs. We
greatly appreciate your sharing of your OS/2 requirements and your efforts
made in testing and reporting OS/2 experiences with VMware.

However, VMware users have high expectations of our products and we do not
feel, given our present strategic directions and commitments, that we can
support OS/2 as a VMware guest operating system. Therefore, we are
suspending our OS/2 experimental release and further OS/2 product
development.

We have been very grateful for the interest shown by you and the rest of the
OS/2 community in testing our experimental OS/2 release. We regret that we
will not be able extend VMware support to include OS/2, but we hope you can
find applications for VMware technology with the other operating systems you
use.

Thank you again for your interest in VMware.

The VMware Team

• FP 13 for Warp 4 English
• FixPak 12 for Warp 4 German
• XFree86/OS2 3.3.6
• XFree86/OS2 4.0 alpha
• The GIMP/2 1.1.19
• CrystalSpace 0.15 (free 6DF 3D engine)
• FixPak 42 German for Warp 3 Server
• Visual Age for Java 3.0 Entry
• First release of the Open JFS sourcecode for OS/2
• ODIN Alpha 5 (of course the most recent day built!)
• Povray 3.1g
• Ghostscript 6.01 and Ghostview 2.9
• Current Pentium optimized GCC (PGCC)

SET PSERVER=:pserver:guest@www.netlabs.org:d:/netlabs.src/openjfs

user: guest
password: readonly

The three days of OS/2 sessions at WarpTech 2000 are now completely scheduled, and a more-sessions-than-timeslots situation may force WarpTech to expand.

"We're looking at adding more meeting rooms" reports Craig Greenwood, the WarpTech Captain. "We planned for three full days and the schedule is already full."

"We may add evening sessions," suggests Esther Schindler, the WarpTech Program Chair for the show. "Participants will be able to attend more sessions if we start earlier and end later each day."

The Exhibitor Hall hours would also be lengthened "with an after-dinner hour," adds Craig Greenwood. "That would give some extra time for attendees and vendors to be together."

Three expanded days of OS/2. Come to WarpTech!

WarpTech 2000 is a 3-day OS/2 technical conference taking place May 26-28 at a pristine 463-acre desert resort in the beautiful Southwest. Come to Phoenix, Arizona USA for three full days of OS/2 -- the biggest OS/2 conference ever held.

Visit the WarpTech web site at http://www.WarpTech.org.

To volunteer or just to watch the goings-on, subscribe to the WarpTech 2000 planning list by sending mail to steward@bitranch.com with the following text in the body (not subject!) of the message: subscribe w2k

Hosted by the Phoenix OS/2 Society, Inc.

Continuing Support and Features for IBM OS/2 and IBM OS/2 Warp Server for e-business
All Yours Via IBM Software Choice

Overview

With OS/2® customers in mind, IBM plans to expand delivery of enhancements via IBM Software Choice .

Software Choice now consolidates OS/2 offerings in Convenience Packages which include:

• Refreshes of OS/2 Warp 4 and OS/2 Warp Server for e-business components
• Software Choice features, such as Browser, Java  Virtual Machine (JVM), and TCP/IP enhancements
• Updated collection of device drivers

OS/2 Warp Client and Server updates will be delivered with available fixes (FixPaks) already applied. The most current e-business enhancements will be included as well.

The Convenience Packages are additional offerings available to customers who have either a Software Subscription under Passport Advantage or an IBM Software Choice subscription.

Over the next two years, the Convenience Packages will be provided annually. The Convenience Packages will only be provided on CD-ROMs.

The first Convenience Package is planned for November 30, 2000. There is no additional charge.

Support will be provided for each annual Convenience Package effective with the initial availability through December 31 of the following year.

Planned Availability Date

November 30, 2000

Description

Convenience Package for OS/2 Warp 4

• Uni-Processor Kernel
• Latest Base Device Drivers
• Unique SYSLEVEL information
• OS/2 Warp Developer Kit, Java Technology Edition, Version 1.1.8
• Digital Video Disc (DVD)/Universal Disk Format (UDF)
• SpeedStep (Geyserville Power Management) and Universal Serial Bus (USB)
• Remote Initial Program Load (RIPL) support.
• Logical Volume Manager {LVM (not FDISK)} and Glocale Localized WIN-OS/2®
• Boot Manager
• Video enhancement for: NeoMagic, S3 Savage, Trident, Matrox G200

National Languages
The convenience packages for both OS/2 Warp 4 and OS/2 Warp Server for e-business will initially be available in English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, French, and Italian.

Our intent is to make the other languages supported by OS/2 Warp 4 available for the Convenience Package for OS/2 Warp 4.

Convenience Package for OS/2 Warp Server for e-business:

• Latest Base Device Drivers
• Unique SYSLEVEL information
• OS/2 Warp Developer Kit, Java Technology Edition, version 1.1.8
• DVD/UDF
• Video enhancements including: NeoMagic, S3 Savage, Trident, Matrox G200

• Hilfe beim Finden der Fehler in den libs (Platon Fomichev)
• oder Applikationen vorschlagen, die unter OS/2 vermisst werden, aber unter GNOME verfügbar sind (Mail an die gnome-os2-Maillingliste bei eGroups).

• eine gute Verkehrsanbindung haben
• einen hohen Niveau entpsrechen (eher keine Schule oder Uni), damit wir bessere Chancen für potente Aussteller und Sponsoren (IBM ?) haben.

• 800 - 1000 qm2 Ausstellungsfläche
• 2-3 Vortragsräume (2 davon mindestens 50 Personen)
• 1-2 Seminarräume (je etwa 30 Personen).