[726] in OS/2_Discussion
For your advocacy files...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (klund@MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 27 10:47:01 1995
From: klund@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 10:46:21 -0400
To: os2partners@MIT.EDU
Yeah, man, OS/2 is dead.
o September 1995: Banca Commerciale Italiana (Comit) in Italy
announces the start of its rollout of a leading-edge banking
information system based on OS/2 to more than 10,000 users;
o September 1995: Sumitomo Bank in Japan purchases 400 OS/2
licenses to serve their 3,000 desktop clients as part of a
joint client system integration project with NEC to manage its
domestic credit online system;
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.
--> Kent.
