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Two quick issues, surely a piece of cake for experienced OS/2 users.

Let me preamble, a little.  My company doesn't yet do a lot with
OS/2, but the times, they are a changing.  Even a superficial examination
of OS/2 puts it ahead of Netware, NT and their ilk, let's be optomistic
and suppose MR IBM keeps the OS/2 iron in the fire; recent efforts, eg.
VisualAge, encourage me to look postively at using OS/2.  I am
nonetheless looking at NT (Informix already supports NT) and so far, it's
easy going.  Not so OS/2, so I'm trying to balance the books and gather more
knowledge of OS/2 before I start getting critical.

Also, don't suppose that I am purporting to be in a position of any
authority within Informix, this is purely research to support immediate
issues for clients - I'm not changing the world...today.

1.  What's the user community in Australia like?  eg. user groups, BBSs,
consulting firms, installed base in terms of number of sites, type of
use, size of user count, applications use and any other yard stick you
might care to mention.

I need to think of potential acceptance of our products, interoperability
at OS/2 sites influencing, say, UNIX software decisions and effectively
any scenario where OS/2 is a criterion for RDBMS, application tools and
connectivity products.

2.  To overcome a personal, technical hurdle, please advise on the following
installation.  I'm putting up OS/2 on an HP EISA machine.  How do I get
better than 604x480 resolution on the standard HP video card?  The card is
not apparently listed and none of my previous trial and error selections
bore fruit.  Also, what can be done to configure for IPX clients, NFS
UNIX mounts, Windows for WorkGroups clients and printer/MODEM sharing
between these platforms?

I appreciate that some of this is pure RTFM stuff, nonetheless, I'm
also trying to gauge issues other than my ability to absorb information.

Plrease advise.

Regards

Adam Green
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