[4512] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
MISC: Mensys places real order with IBM for 20.000 copies of Warp 5 client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mensys News Service)
Fri Jan 1 16:48:00 1999
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: 01 Jan 1999 16:04:00 -0500
From: windowssucks@hotmail.com (Mensys News Service)
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Haarlem, December 23, 1998
Dear IBM,
Our company is specialized in mail-order sales of OS/2 Warp products. Our
customers asked us to start taking pre-orders for a new version of OS/2 Warp
(version 5?).
We started taking pre-orders, only from people entering their data on our
web-site. We suggested a price level of US$ 100 excl. tax and shipping.
We so far accepted over 6000 orders and based on these orders expect a total
of 7000 orders this year and at least 13000 next year.
So please accept our firm order for 7.000 copies of a new OS/2 Warp version
for a total of US$ 700.000 and our expected order for at least 13.000 copies
for a total of US$ 1.300.000 next year.
Our feeling is that this is of course only a small subset of potential
customers. At the recent HCC fair in the Netherlands which attracted over
115.000 people we noticed a growing disappointment in Microsoft products and
a strongly growing interest in alternative operating systems such as Linux
and BeOS. A renewed OS/2 could attract many new customers and could help IBM
with their sales of OS/2 to large accounts. Interest in Java-solutions would
grow if there was more diversity in operating systems.
Non-delivery of a new Warp client will also mean that the people and
companies who now pre-ordered a new Warp 5 Client may stop using other
IBM/Lotus products such as Notes, DB2, TX Series, MQseries, SmartSuite, etc.
If you wish we can send you a list of comments from our customers about
suggested functionality for this new Warp version.
Regards,
M.B. de Jong
General Manager, Mensys B.V.
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Please read more on this on the official 21Warp Homepage:
http://www.jmast.se/21warp/
Place your order online:
http://shop.mensys.nl/cgi-bin/db2www.exe/mns_reg5.d2w/report
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