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os2@mistik.express.net quetschte am 22.03.97 zum Thema "Re: All this OS/2 is dead talk." folgendes aus der
Denkerbse:

> In article <vnyMzwLv0CcQ090yn@inorbit.com>,
> Kataman <kataman@inorbit.com> wrote:
> >In article <5gv4cp$fs6$2@gaia.ns.utk.edu>, rdegenna@utk.edu wrote:
> >|In <lc9LzgRDAsZY091yn@bigblue.no>, bv@bigblue.no (B. Vermo) writes:
> >|>In article <5gl2o3$9ja$3@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net>, meazell@ibm.net wrote:
> >|>|
> >|>Since IBM is under contract with a major customer to continue to develop
> >|>OS/2 for at least ten years,
> >|
> >|Who is this major customer?
> >|
> >|Ray DeGennaro
> >
> >        Many banks in Canada. One of my aquaintences is working for a
> >software company that recently got a contract for a bank to write software,
> >in OS/2 for the bank.
>
> So again, who is this nameless/clueless customer that can't be verified?
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Mustafa,

John Soyring (who is "Director of the business unit networking project",  
and the "boss" of Paul Giangarra) stated on CeBit, that IBM continues to  
develop OS/2 "for the foreseeable future, _at least_ ten years from now".

A page with all his statements is in preparation right now. I will post  
the URL when it is finished.

Regarding your question about who these customers are (or is), sorry, I do  
not know, but Mr Soyring also stated, that the Bank of China and Honkong  
signed a contract with IBM to switch _all_ workstations to OS/2. I have no  
exact numbers, because IBMs own information on this varies (they have a  
dot between the numbers, and it is placed on different positions on  
different texts, so ...)

John Soyring also stated some interessting facts regarding the further  
development of OS/2, and IBMs investments in OS/2. They will be published  
on the page mentioned above.

MfG CoCo

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