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PR: IBM Sold Record Numbers of Warp at End of 1995
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mick Brown)
Sat Feb 17 22:07:51 1996
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Date: 18 Feb 1996 01:59:51 GMT
From: lfirrantello@BIX.com (Mick Brown)
Reply-To: tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM
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Submitted by: tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM
Source: tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM
Contact: Neisha Conyers, IBM Media Relations 512-823-1996
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IBM SOLD RECORD NUMBERS OF OS/2 WARP AT END OF 1995
OS/2 Sales Now Top 12 Million Worldwide
AUSTIN, Texas, January 23, 1996. . .IBM today announced record sales figures
for OS/2* Warp, with one million licenses sold in December, escalating the
total number of OS/2 Warp licenses to six million and overall OS/2 purchases
to more than 12 million.
"We expected OS/2 Warp sales to rise after customers had a chance to try out
Windows** 95," said Wally Casey, director of marketing and brand management
for IBM Personal Software Products. "December brought us proof of this when
our sales reached an all-time high, capping what we believe was a very
successful year for the OS/2 Warp family of products."
"After evaluating Windows 95, I'm not surprised that OS/2 sales are up," said
Greg Bell, information systems supervisor at the Kentucky Department of
Property Taxation. "OS/2 Warp delivers superior multitasking, is relatively
easy to use and rarely crashes. I certainly wouldn't bet my business on
Windows 95. It is only marginally better than Windows 3.11. In a business
environment I'm staying away from Windows 95 and sticking with OS/2."
Success Breeds Success
Success of OS/2-compatible applications rose with sales of the operating
system. OS/2 developers like SPG Inc., WitchDesk Inc., PowerQuest and Computer
Data Strategies all experienced strong sales in the fourth quarter of 1995.
And Stardock System's OS/2-based Galactic Civilizations was voted Best Game of
1995 on the Internet PC Games Charts, a site on the Internet where computer
game players vote weekly on their favorite PC games.
"We just completed our largest quarter ever," said Brent Bowlby, president of
Woodbury, MN. based Computer Data Strategies, Inc., which manufactures
BackAgain/2 backup and recovery software. "OS/2 provides an open market for
small companies, such as CDS, to begin their path to success. Combining this
technically sophisticated operating system with a growing user base and a
growing demand for native OS/2 solutions spells success for those developers
developing in this market. "
"We began shipping PartitionMagic in March '95, and within six months we were
running a profitable business," said Eric J. Ruff, president of PowerQuest, an
Orem, Utah-based company which develops a utility that allows OS/2 users to
dynamically create, shrink, expand and move partitions on the fly without
destroying data. "At the start of the fourth quarter, sales were up 20
percent. In November we introduced Version 2.0 and sales tripled. And in
December sales for OS/2 products were again higher than anticipated."
More in Store in 1996
IBM will capitalize on a successful 1995 by connecting computer users to each
other and the future with a comprehensive offering of OS/2-based products in
1996. The industry-acclaimed OS/2 Warp Server will simplify distributed
computing for businesses and workgroups of all sizes when it ships this
quarter. And the next generation of OS/2 Warp, code-named Merlin, will launch
users further into the network-centric world of computing with market-leading
plans for networking and Internet capabilities, an enhanced user interface and
improved OpenDoc support.
* Indicates trademark or registered trademark of the IBM Corp.
** Indicates trademark of Microsoft Corp.
All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective companies.
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