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From: Majordomo@austin.ibm.com
To: ps-newsletter-weekly@austin.ibm.com

Subject: OS/2 Weekly Newsletter

 
 THE OS/2 WARP WEEKLY - A production of Software Electronic Marketing
         Covering information relevant to OS/2 Warp and LAN Server
                 ISSUE 48 - 1/12/96 (A real collector's item)
 
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 The OS/2 Warp Weekly and OS/2 Warp Monthly Newsletters are available
 on the Internet at http://www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/newsletters.html
 
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                        CONTENTS
 
1.LOTUS NOTES RELEASE 4.0 MOMENTUM BUILDING FAST
2.IBM VOICETYPE DICTATION: A SPEECH RECOGNITION PRODUCT FOR OS/2
3.TENNESSEE BOUND FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE
4.WORDS ON OS/2 WARP FROM COMPUTERWORLD
5.SHOW YOUR OS/2 WARP SUPPORT -- TAKE A ZIFF-DAVIS SURVEY
6.WARP'D HUMOR
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1.     LOTUS NOTES RELEASE 4.0 MOMENTUM BUILDING FAST
 
>From the December 29th manufacturing delivery to the announcement
of a January 10th ship date to an appearance at Lotusphere '96
January 22-25 in Orlando, Notes 4.0 excitement and anticipation are
steadily building.
 
The latest release of Notes, Release 4, provides product improvements
in six key areas:
 - client/server messaging
 - ease of use
 - Internet integration
 - mobility application development
 - programmability
 - enterprise management and scaleability.
 
The Notes Release 4 server will bevailable in single- and
multi-processor versions (ERPs $495 and $2,295 respectively) and
includes, at no additional charge, the InterNotes Web Publisher 2.0,
offering Notes customers the ability to publish Notes-based
information to users of generic Web browsers.
 
Three client versions will be available, one designed primarily
for E-mail, a second that can run custom Notes applications, and
a third intended for application developers and system
administrators.
 
Lotus Notes Release 4 will support 16 platforms and 20 languages.
The worldwide roll out will occur within the next 90 days.
Platforms slated to ship include OS/2 Warp and Windows NT servers,
and Windows 95 and Windows 3.1 clients.  Additional client support
will follow for:OS/2 Warp, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Macintosh
PowerPC and 68K, and Windows NT.  Server support will expand to
include:  Windows 95, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris and Novell NetWare.
 
French, German, International English, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese will ship
simultaneously with the U.S. versions.  Brazilian Portuguese,
Czech., Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French Canadian, Hungarian,
Norwegian, Polish and Swedish will ship within 90 days.  	
 
 
Introduced in 1989, Lotus Notes has become the world's leading
messaging and groupware software.  It has attained its leadership
status by providing a complete platform for developing and
deploying messaging and groupware applications, supporting
heterogeneous desktop, network and server environments, as well as
alternate clients, desktop productivity tools and databases and
by the support of more than 12,000 Lotus Business Partners, who
offer hundreds of off-the-shelf applications, custom development,
deployment and maintenance services.
 
For more information on the visit Lotus' homepage at:
http://www.lotus.com
 
 
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2.  IBM VOICETYPE DICTATION: A SPEECH RECOGNITION PRODUCT FOR OS/2
 
IBM VoiceType Dictation is a highly accurate speech recognition system,
which analyses what you say and can immediately turn it into text on your
screen at a rate of 70-100 words a minute.  You can customize the system
for your particular needs through a simple enrollment procedure.  You
can use IBM VoiceType Dicatation to control your desktop and application
as well as do dictation.  In addition to the standard UK English version,
it is available with specialized vocabularies for Radiology, Pathology
and Legal as well as languages including US English, French, Spanish,
German, Italian and Arabic.
 
One IBM VoiceType Dictation customer,Roger Fletcher a translator of
Chinese, has boosted his productivity by 80%.  He finds he can work for
much longer periods without getting tired.  Roger uses VoiceType under
OS/2 for the majority of his work, including lengthy letters and notes.
VoiceType Dictation for OS/2 has completely transformed the way Roger
works.  "I can now put in more hours per day without fatigue, as many as
12 hours when I am up against a deadline."  VoiceType lets Roger do more
work, faster than ever before and he doesn't have to work unsociable
hours.
 
For more information, see the rest of this article on the worldwide web
at:
 
http://www.software.ibm.com/workgroup/voicetyp/vtwin_translate.html
 
or visit:
 
http://www.software.ibm.com/workgroup/voicetyp/
 
or call 1-800-TALK-2-ME.
 
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3.  TENNESSEE BOUND FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE
 
Nashville '96, the International Technical Interchange will be held April
22-26, 1996 in (you guessed it) Nashville, TN.  So mark those dates and
plan to attend the best exchange of technical information on IBM software
products.  More information will be coming soon.
 
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4.        WORDS ON OS/2 WARP FROM COMPUTERWORLD
 
Computerworld declared that OS/2 as a server system is really worth a
look.  Computerworld also did a comparison of Windows 95 to OS/2 Warp.
 
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5.   SHOW YOUR OS/2 WARP SUPPORT -- TAKE A ZIFF-DAVIS SURVEY
 
Ziff-Davis is conducting a survey of Windows 95 installations.  The
survey also wants to know what operating system people are running if
not Windows 95.  So go take a look at
http://www.zdnet.com/~zdi/win95/survey2.html and tell them what you
think of OS/2 Warp.
 
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6.                         WARP'D HUMOR
 
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil?
You're  crazy."
 
--Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project
to drill for  oil in 1859.
 
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say
America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you
make."
 
--Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.