OS/2 Servers Gain Market Share in First Half of '96

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Author: Kevin J Baxter
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 00:00

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Source: http://www.ibm.com/news

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OS/2 Servers Gain Market Share in First Half of '96

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September 17, 1996

OS/2 Warp Server Begins to Outpace Its Predecessor

ATLANTA, Georgia, September 17, 1996 . . . IBM today announced that OS/2
servers grew worldwide market share from 14.1 percent to 15.2 percent from
the end of 1995 through the first half of 1996, according to IDC. The
strong performance of OS/2 servers was bolstered by the availability of
OS/2 Warp Server at the end of February.

Market anticipation for Warp Server was so high that OS/2 servers increased
share five percent in the second quarter over the first quarter of this
year. IDC defines share as determined by the number of new shipments and
upgrades, which totaled 178,100 OS/2 servers in the first half of this
year.

OS/2 servers maintained the number two position in total server installed
base, including both file and print serving and application serving,
against Novell NetWare, and beat all UNIX systems combined. IBM also
recorded the second highest percentage growth rate of shipments from the
end of 1995 through the first half of 1996. In addition, OS/2 servers grew
share in the U.S. to 15.2 percent in the first half of 1996, compared to
10.7 percent for the same period in 1995.

"The bottom line is, OS/2 servers, particularly Warp Server, are gaining
market share in an extremely competitive environment by helping customers
build critically needed PC LAN infrastructures for intranet and Internet
application serving," said Art Olbert, vice president of server products,
IBM Personal Software Products. "In fact, in June Warp Server outsold its
predecessor, LAN Server, indicating early and strong market acceptance of
Warp Server by our customers, who range from small businesses to large
enterprises."

"With Warp Server, IBM has substantially enhanced the value proposition of
its strategic PC LAN OS/2 application server," said Phil Johnson, IDC
global director of UNIX and server operating environments. "The continuing
growth of IBM's OS/2 server shipments suggests customer commitment to this
well-established application server platform."

Some recent OS/2 server customer wins include: the State of California,
which purchased 300 Warp Server licenses; Banca Commerciale Italiana in
Milan, which bought 1,600 Warp Servers; Dean Witter, which is rolling out
900 Warp Servers; Comerica Bank, which purchased 270 Warp Server licenses;
Furrs-Bishops Inc., which is running Warp Server in 125 stores across 13
states; and Trustmark National Bank, which is upgrading all of its servers
to Warp Server. These installations demonstrate the strength and breadth of
Warp Server to satisfy customer needs ranging from small business
applications to mission-critical operations.

OS/2 Warp Server: The Complete Business Solution

OS/2 Warp Server, released in February, is IBM's business server solution
for customers ranging from small businesses to large enterprises. It
provides a foundation for application serving and file and print sharing,
plus a wealth of integrated features including systems management, backup
and recovery, remote access, enhanced TCP/IP support, advanced print
function and LAN Internet access. Global directory and security services
for OS/2 Warp Server are available through the IBM Directory and Security
Server for OS/2.

IBM also announced today a symmetric-multiprocessing (SMP) feature which
will be available for the already feature-rich OS/2 Warp Server Advanced on
September 30.

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Re: OS/2 Servers Gain Market Share in First Half of '96

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Author: Gilbert Mella
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:00

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Kevin J Baxter <kjbaxter@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> wrote in article
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> September 17, 1996
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> OS/2 Warp Server Begins to Outpace Its Predecessor
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> ATLANTA, Georgia, September 17, 1996 . . . IBM today announced that OS/2
> servers grew worldwide market share from 14.1 percent to 15.2 percent
from
> the end of 1995 through the first half of 1996, according to IDC. The
> strong performance of OS/2 servers was bolstered by the availability of
> OS/2 Warp Server at the end of February.

Meanwhile the IBM PC company announced today (17 Sept.) the availability of
the IBM PC 365, a dual Pentium Pro PC with.....Windows NT 4.0 Pre-loaded!
And this is being done just one short week before Merlin hits the street.

Why is this company so engaged in undermining OS/2?  Is there  bad blood 
between the heads of the PC and PSP division?

Is somebody at IBM PC company bent on making JWT fail in his efforts to
make OS/2 Merlin the OS of choice?

What's going on?

Gilbert Mella

Re: OS/2 Servers Gain Market Share in First Half of '96

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Author: Danny Hutama
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:00

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Gilbert Mella (gmella@worldnet.att.net) wrote:


: Kevin J Baxter <kjbaxter@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> wrote in article
: <323EE77F.6B85@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>...
: > Source: http://www.ibm.com/news
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: > OS/2 Servers Gain Market Share in First Half of '96
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: > September 17, 1996
: > 
: > OS/2 Warp Server Begins to Outpace Its Predecessor
: > 
: > ATLANTA, Georgia, September 17, 1996 . . . IBM today announced that OS/2
: > servers grew worldwide market share from 14.1 percent to 15.2 percent
: from
: > the end of 1995 through the first half of 1996, according to IDC. The
: > strong performance of OS/2 servers was bolstered by the availability of
: > OS/2 Warp Server at the end of February.

: Meanwhile the IBM PC company announced today (17 Sept.) the availability of
: the IBM PC 365, a dual Pentium Pro PC with.....Windows NT 4.0 Pre-loaded!
: And this is being done just one short week before Merlin hits the street.

: Why is this company so engaged in undermining OS/2?  Is there  bad blood 
: between the heads of the PC and PSP division?

: Is somebody at IBM PC company bent on making JWT fail in his efforts to
: make OS/2 Merlin the OS of choice?

: What's going on?

: Gilbert Mella
:  

I guess the answer is simple: OS/2 Warp 4.0 doesn't have SMP capability.
The PC Co wants to sell SMP machines, what other OS can they put for the
SMP machine (for non-server): only Windows NT Workstation 4.0.

Too bad IBM won't bundle SMP to its Warp family of OS/2 (except Warp Server
Advanced). Stupid move on their part, IMHO.

-danny

Re: OS/2 Servers Gain Market Share in First Half of '96

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Author: Frank Field
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:00

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In <01bba516$f79dd440$0c2d74cf@351137528>, "Gilbert Mella" <gmella@worldnet.att.net> writes:
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>
>Meanwhile the IBM PC company announced today (17 Sept.) the availability of
>the IBM PC 365, a dual Pentium Pro PC with.....Windows NT 4.0 Pre-loaded!
>And this is being done just one short week before Merlin hits the street.
>
>Why is this company so engaged in undermining OS/2?  Is there  bad blood 
>between the heads of the PC and PSP division?
>
>Is somebody at IBM PC company bent on making JWT fail in his efforts to
>make OS/2 Merlin the OS of choice?
>
>What's going on?
>
>Gilbert Mella
> 

Gilbert:

If you *really* want to get confused, go to the IBM PC www page and
look up the write up on the new 300 series.  There it
states OS compatibility with (1) OS/2 Warp; (2) Win NT 3.51; and
(3) Win 95.

Most interestingly, the OS/2 Warp listing is footnoted with
the note: most systems..........

A split personality somewhere out there (as is
routinely cited when it comes to IBM 
business practices????)



Frank Field
O-

Re: OS/2 Servers Gain Market Share in First Half of '96

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Author: Steve Sinnott
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 00:00

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"Gilbert Mella" <gmella@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>Meanwhile the IBM PC company announced today (17 Sept.) the availability of
>the IBM PC 365, a dual Pentium Pro PC with.....Windows NT 4.0 Pre-loaded!
>And this is being done just one short week before Merlin hits the street.

1) There are different models of the PC 365. Each with different
options.
2) You can order them with NO preload, and I beleive PC Co. is
shipping the drivers for NT 95 & OS/2 with them.

>Why is this company so engaged in undermining OS/2?  Is there  bad blood 
>between the heads of the PC and PSP division?

I could make a comment about someone at PC Co. not having quite enough
sandwichs for a picnic, so to speak, but I won't.

-steve
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Steve Sinnott
napalm@ibm.net
Napalm Productions, Inc.

🚀 go-pugleaf

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