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IBM Sold Record Numbers of OS/2 Warp at End of 1995                           
 
January 24, 1996                                                              
 
                                                                              
 
OS/2 Sales Now Top 12 Million Worldwide                                       
 
                                                                              
 
                                                                              
 
AUSTIN, Texas, January 23, 1996. . .IBM today announced                       
 
record sales figures for OS/2* Warp, with one million licenses                
 
sold in December, escalating the total number of OS/2 Warp                    
 
licenses to six million and overall OS/2 purchases to more than               
 
12 million.                                                                   
 
                                                                              
 
"We expected OS/2 Warp sales to rise after customers had a                    
 
chance to try out Windows** 95," said Wally Casey, director of                
 
marketing and brand management for IBM Personal Software                      
 
Products.  "December brought us proof of this when our sales                  
 
reached an all-time high, capping what we believe was a very                  
 
successful year for the OS/2 Warp family of products."                        
 
                                                                              
 
"After evaluating Windows 95, I'm not surprised that OS/2                     
 
sales are up,"  said Greg Bell, information systems supervisor at             
 
the Kentucky Department of Property Taxation.  "OS/2 Warp                     
 
delivers superior multitasking, is relatively easy to use and                 
 
rarely crashes.  I certainly wouldn't bet my business on Windows 95.          
 
It is only marginally better than Windows 3.11.  In a                         
 
business environment I'm staying away from Windows 95 and                     
 
sticking with OS/2."                                                          
 
                                                                              
 
                                                                              
 
Success Breeds Success                                                        
 
                                                                              
 
Success of OS/2-compatible applications rose with sales of                    
 
the operating system.   OS/2 developers like SPG Inc., WitchDesk              
 
Inc., PowerQuest and Computer Data Strategies all experienced                 
 
strong sales in the fourth quarter of 1995.  And Stardock                     
 
System's OS/2-based Galactic Civilizations was voted Best Game of             
 
1995 on the Internet PC Games Charts, a site on the Internet                  
 
where computer game players vote weekly on their favorite PC                  
 
games.                                                                        
 
                                                                              
 
"We just completed our largest quarter ever," said Brent                      
 
Bowlby, president of Woodbury, Minn.-based Computer Data                      
 
Strategies, Inc., which manufactures BackAgain/2 backup and                   
 
recovery software.  "OS/2 provides an open market for small                   
 
companies, such as CDS, to begin their path to success.                       
 
Combining this technically sophisticated operating system with a              
 
growing user base and a growing demand for native OS/2 solutions              
 
spells success for those developers developing in this market. "              
 
                                                                              
 
"We began shipping PartitionMagic in March '95, and within six                
 
months we were running a profitable business," said Eric J. Ruff,             
 
president of PowerQuest, an Orem, Utah-based company which                    
 
develops a utility that allows OS/2 users to dynamically create,              
 
shrink, expand and move partitions on the fly without destroying              
 
data.  "At the start of the fourth quarter, sales were up 20                  
 
percent.  In November we introduced Version 2.0 and sales                     
 
tripled.  And in December sales for OS/2 products were again                  
 
higher than anticipated."                                                     
 
                                                                              
 
                                                                              
 
More in Store in 1996                                                         
 
                                                                              
 
IBM will capitalize on a successful 1995 by connecting                        
 
computer users to each other and the future with a comprehensive              
 
offering of OS/2-based products in 1996.  The industry-acclaimed              
 
OS/2 Warp Server will simplify distributed computing for                      
 
businesses and workgroups of all sizes when it ships this                     
 
quarter.   And the next generation of OS/2 Warp, code-named                   
 
Merlin, will launch users further into the network-centric world              
 
of computing with market-leading plans for networking and                     
 
Internet capabilities, an enhanced user interface and improved                
 
OpenDoc support.                                                              
 
                                                                              
 
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