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OS/2 NEWS: First birthday of OS/2 Warp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (msavio@vnet.IBM.COM)
Sun Oct 22 12:28:29 1995
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 06:41:14 GMT
From: msavio@vnet.IBM.COM
Reply-To: msavio@vnet.IBM.COM
Submitted by: M. Savio (msavio@vnet.ibm.com)
Source: M. Savio (msavio@vnet.ibm.com)
Date received: 1995 October 20
Date posted: 1995 October 20
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4 MILLION CANDLES ON OS/2 WARP'S FIRST BIRTHDAY CAKE
Since OS/2 Warp was launched one year ago, the product 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.
Major OS/2 successes worldwide during recent months include:
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 its 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.
OS/2 Warp has received 23 awards since its release last year, including
InfoWorld Readers' Choice Product of the Year, PC Magazine No.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."
