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WARPSTOCK RIDES AGAIN

    Well its that time of year again, when OS/2 users hold their annual lovein; of course I'm talking about Warpstock (October 5th & 6th). The annual conference has been held in a variety of places in the past. This time around, the organizers picked Austin, Texas, what was once the hub of OS/2 development by IBM. Nowadays, thanks to the many IBM divisional mergers, its kind of hard to know where control rests for OS/2 within the company. Perhaps Warpstock will help clarify this and the selection of Austin should be applauded (who knows, maybe even David Barnes, who makes Austin his home, will rise from the dead and make a surprise appearance).

    As usual, Warpstock will have quite a complement of presentations, including:

    • Migrating from NetBios to TCPbeui, by Oliver Mark.

    • OS/2 Device Driver Programming - What You Don't Find In The Books, by Daniel Engert.

    • Remote-booting eComStation from eComStation, by Micho Durdevich.

    • Remote-booting Windows And Linux from eComStation, by Micho Durdevich.

    • Java 2 Standard Edition, release 1.4 by Greg Shaw.

    • CID, LSMT, Rapid Deployment, presented by Alain Rykaert.

    • DFSee, an introduction, parts 1 and 2, presented by Jan van Wijk.

    • F/X communication, presented by Brian Smith.

    • XML on OS/2, presented by Gregory Bourassa.

    • SciTech SNAP Graphics for OS/2, presented by Kendall Bennett.

    • GoldenCode Trace Suite, presented by Greg Shaw.

    • Scott Garfinkle, IBM: OS/2 Hang & Trap analysis.

    • Mike Kaply, IBM: OS/2 Web Browser.

      Oliver Mark, IBM: OS/2 Updates.

    • Rainer Feuerstein: Bootable CD's.

    • Achim Hasenmueller, Innotek: VirtualPC.

    • Achim Hasenmueller, Innotek: Universal Audio Driver.

    • Richard Spurlock, Starfire: Starfire Titan.

    • Randall Flint, Sundial Systems: Sundial Product Suite.

    • Bob St. John/Kim Cheung, Serenity Systems: eCS updates.

    • Darrell Spice Jr., Spiceware: On emulators for OS/2.

    • Sam Emrick, IBM: Speed and Performance with OS/2.

    • Ron Capelli, IBM: Java & OS/2.

    The folks at VOICE are also organizing a CD filled with OS/2 shareware and freeware for distribution at the conference. Sounds like another fine conference by and for OS/2 loyalists. These types of pep-rallys are vital for the survival of the product.

    IBM OS/2 PRODUCT PLANS

    Something else that caught my eye this past month was the following Statement of Intent from IBM as found at the IBM Software Choice web site:

      Statement of Intent
      Dateline: August 22, 2002

      Our intent is to deliver the following features in 4Q2002:

    • An updated version of the IBM Web Browser for OS/2. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/warp/browser/

    • Support for Web Start Java application deployment technology. We intend to provide Java Web Start for OS/2 based on SUN's Java Web Start version 1.0.1 for Windows. Our plan includes desktop integration functions adapted for differences between Windows and OS/2.

    • An XML Parser for Java applications on OS/2. We intend to provide a XML Parser for Java based on the Xerces version 2.0.1 and Xalan version 2.3.1 Open Source technology from the Apache XML Project.

    I hope someone at Warpstock pushes the IBM representatives there for specific delivery dates on their product plans.

    Have a great Warpstock! Enjoy the show.

    Keep the Faith!

 

- Tim Bryce
Editor, OS/2 CONNECT

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