OS/2 Warp 4 will be updated
At the time the first OS/2-user denoted that Fixpack #13a for the "Aurora"- Kernel (4.5) should be available for Warp 4 client also, noone was willed to believe that. After hardcore OS/2-user have been reading the article from Esther Schindler on ZDnet they have been still incredulous... and with
with the report on OS2.org about that article a heavy discussion was started.
The HEISE-Newsticker (german computernews forum) was releasing a german translation also for the non-OS/2-world. The comments on it have been even more incredulous as the one from the OS/2-users, just because there is still the opinion in the IT-World, that an OS, which is not a OS for the masses is stated as "dead" and IBM is only supporting the server-version - which is pretty unkown outside the OS/2-environment too.
Can we believe it already? Has the mother of our beloved OS already realised that their own service-technicians, as supporter of the large OS/2 customers, just not be keen on it to ship very old installation CDs with numerous patches. Only to get an OS/2 meeting with todays requirements. Or is just the effort to support fixpaks for 4 and 4.5 even higher?
As a rumor subscribers to SoftwareChoice could get such an updated installation CD - yet again something only for "well-healed" OS/2 users?
IBM, it is in time to offer the remaining OS/2 users such a CD which can be, maybe for little fee, ordered at the local OS/2 dealer showing up the license. And all who want to buy the OS today (unbelievable, there are new users) should be able to get this "new OS/2" - easy, just in famous box.
To underline the e-Commerce orientation of IBM, they really should offer not only the WarpServer for e-business but also the WarpClient for it. It will be against the nature of IBM but noone recommended that this Client is offered in WalMart or other malls, only that an OS/2-user can order this OS/2.
It has to been pointed out: OS/2 is still in the market, where you can't here anything more from others. And what OS is capable of running applications from Unix, X and Win32 - and so stable like OS/2-users are used to it.
There is no wondering about the fact of increasing Free- and Sharewaretools. Just more users say to themselves: If there is no application or driver, then we write them for their own (also with included tools like REXX).
I am happy, that I haven't changed - to where anyhow? No matter what setbacks have been and will be to suffer, no matter how often they call OS/2 "dead", unless:The last OS/2-user has changed to another OS, the last OS/2-supported has finished his last call and the last OS/2-developer has stopped his build, OS/2 won't be dead .. ..and we are way far from that!
(translated by Philipp Buehler)
Joerg Sievers, 2000-02-13
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