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VENDOR: WarpSpeed Computers offer to all ISV's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Graham)
Fri Mar 14 04:57:40 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 14 Mar 1997 09:44:39 GMT
From: chrisg@warpspeed.com.au (Chris Graham)
Reply-To: chrisg@warpspeed.com.au (Chris Graham)
Reply-to: chrisg@warpspeed.com.au (Chris Graham)
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WarpSpeed Computers is a registered business name of Chesslad P/L.
ACN 050 135 307
Contact: Chris Graham, President/Director & CEO
"WarpSpeed Computers offers a single site for commercial ISV updates"
Brunswick, VIC, AUSTRALIA, March 10, 1997 -- To all commercial ISV's -
WarpSpeed Computers is offering use of its internet server to provide a single
unified site for updates of their products. The offer is open to all commercial
ISV's who are shipping OS/2 products. There is no charge for this service.
Updates to products, particularly when dealing with multiple vendors, can often
be tedious and very time consuming to find and install. WarpSpeed Computers is
offering its internet server as a holding site for updates. The updates will be
made available via four different methods. Gopher and FTP will be provided for
those users who prefer a standard gopher or FTP interface. Also provided is a
modified gopher server which is needed for the "Retrieve Software Updates"
program that was supplied with OS/2 Warp 3.
Support for the newer web based "Retrieve Software Updates" (RSU) program is
also provided. IBM is using the RSU method for the distribution of its own
CSD's and other updates. Using the RSU method, the user clicks on a link to a
small RSU file. This RSU file is recognized by a suitably modified web browser
(IBM provides an update program for Netscape and Web Explorer users),
downloaded and passed onto the RSUINST.EXE program. The RSUINST program
downloads the real updates and then runs an install program.
WarpSpeed Computers will provide documentation and support to those ISV's that
require it.
"The real aim of this offering is to make it is easier on the users. Nothing
else." says Director and CEO Chris Graham. "We have seen an obvious need in the
market and we have supplied a solution to it. The concept was mentioned to the
editors of some eZines and they thought that OS/2 users sorely needed such a
service, so we just set out and did it. We use it for our own products and it
works well. Why shouldn't we offer it to others?"
WarpSpeed Computers Updates page can be accessed at:
http://www.warpspeed.com.au/updates.htm
This can only work with the support of other ISV's. We are hoping that all of
them will get involved, as no-one looses. Everyone wins, particularly the
users. All interested ISV's should email Chris Graham at the above address for
further details.
Based in Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, WarpSpeed Computers has been in
business since 1988 and is committed to producing high quality, low cost
software which meets and exceeds the end user's expectations. The software is
fully supported through CompuServe and other electronic means - including our
own BBS and Web sites. Phone, fax and mail support are also available. Dealers
are situated in Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany,
Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United States.
-Chris
WarpSpeed Computers - The Graham Utilities for OS/2.
Voice: +61-3-9384-1060 PO Box 212 FidoNet: 3:632/344
FAX: +61-3-9386-9979 Brunswick Internet: chrisg@warpspeed.com.au
BBS: +61-3-9386-3104 VIC 3056 CompuServe: 100250,1645
300-28,800 N,8,1 ANSI Australia Web Pages:
http://www.netins.net/showcase/spectre
http://www.warpspeed.com.au
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