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Subject: Team OS/2 Relations and PC User Group Support
Date: April 15, 1996

Hi. I'm pleased to report that IBM will continue its support of Team
OS/2 activity in North America for 1996. IBM will also support PC user
groups and OS/2 special interest groups in 1996.

IBM has a long history of supporting PC User Group activity, and we are
committed to supporting this user community. IBM will continue to
request invitations to present IBM software to user group members, and
provide evaluation software for user group newsletters. We will sponsor
user group officer events such as APCUG/Spring Comdex in Chicago June
1-5, and Intergalactic June 15. Our team looks forward to meeting many
of you at these events, and welcomes E-mail from all user group members
who seek IBM information.

IBM appreciates the grassroots marketing and support efforts of Team
OS/2. IBM appreciates what Team OS/2 has accomplished for OS/2, and
would very much like to see that enthusiastic support for the product
continue. Teamers who hold OS/2 demonstrations will continue to receive
materials for events from IBM. The support staff will do more to
communicate information from IBM to Team OS/2, using mailing lists and
echoes to publish this information. We'll take Teamer requests and
concerns back to IBM. And we'll encourage Teamers to help fellow
Teamers in promoting and supporting OS/2. With the upcoming beta of
Merlin, we want to have Teamers help make the new version of Warp as
successful as possible.

A four person team will be responsible for this activity. Anita
Venable, Arylnn Poczynek, Richard Woolsey, and Terry Hamilton will act
as the support group for both Team OS/2 and PC User Groups.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be putting up a set of Web pages with
more information. We'll start collecting information on Merlin and let
you know where and when to obtain it. And we'll keep sending support
packages out when requested.


To contact us, you can start by sending E-mail:

Team OS/2: teamers@ibm.net
PC User Groups:  ibmpcug@ibm.net

We will monitor newsgroups such as comp.org.usergroup.* and
alt.org.team-os2. We are creating a mailing list for Team OS/2
Relations, at the following address:

teamplan-l@teamos2.org

Our Internet web pages:

Team OS/2: www.teamos2.org/ibm
PC User Group: www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/ibmpcug.html


We'll post information here on a regular basis over the next few weeks,
directing you to more resources as they come on-line.

Grassroots marketing - successful grassroots marketing - will be
critical to IBM's success with OS/2 Warp. It's our hope that user
groups and Team OS/2 will find new ways to help users of OS/2, and
encourage others to try OS/2 Warp.

Keep in touch,

 Anita Venable
 Arylnn Poczynek
 Richard Woolsey
 Terry Hamilton

 Team OS/2 Relations at IBM
 IBM PC User Group Support
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Terry Hamilton              tch@ibm.net                     torvm3(thamilto)

TEAM OS/2 Relations         teamers@ibm.net              
IBM User Group Support      ibmpcug@ibm.net