Very Computer

  I'll share with you my experience with COMDEX here in Atlanta. First I
spend time in COMDEX side, I notice a long, long line and go to
investigate. To my surprise it is people waiting to sit down at an OS/2
Warp, hands-on demo. I mean there is probably 75-100 people waiting to
do this. Activity seems to be concentrated in the IBM area. Check out
the Warp Connect, looks very nice. Talking with the girl doing
presentations about release date. She says very soon, but wishes she
could have had it to sell, as interest is running very high. Then to the
Windows World side. Lots of CD-ROM software, NT area almost vacant,
Windows 9?, I see almost no one sitting at the Win 9? demo computers.
Novell big presence. On the train home conversation errupts as to the
August release of Win 9?, a question of "How many people believe it will
ship in August?". Packed train and no one speaks. My impression of
remarks made (to me and overheard) and the overall floor traffic left me
with the impression that Win 9? is destined to be Microsoft's big
blunder, and no one cares if it ever comes out. Now, I may be accused of
spreading rumors and being biased, but these are legitimate insights as
to what was happening on Wednesday April 26, 1995 at COMDEX in Atlanta.
  For what it's worth, COMDEX was pretty dull beyond IBM and WARP. Oh
yea, Color was everywhere, with color lasers coming down to the $5000
mark. One of the coolest things was the photograph quality plotters
printing out big posters.(though not quite practical for home use!)
  Biggest surprise: Viewsonic and Optiquest (monitors) are now combined.
(announced this week at COMDEX).

                        DeWayne Epley
                        Team OS/2
                        http://www.atlwin.com/resdes/resdes.htm

Thanks,

If you check out the ZIFF COMDEX preview stuff you'll notice few WIN32
software ready for COMDEX.  The biggest news events were reports on the
redesign of *my* favorite WP, AMIPRO to WordPro.  Both 3.1 apps.

I'm hardly surprised that WIN95 is not drawing a crowd.  With the
M8 preview out and little softwate, there's not much to see.
Been there, done that.

OS/2 on the other hand has had such a low profile that people will be
taking advantage of the opportunity to see IBM showcase the OS and
it's native apps.
--

Stable AND Compatible is not the same as Stable OR Compatible.

Thanks for telling us about the show...armchair travel (or is that
keyboard travel) saves a hell of a lot of wear and tear...

Your comments remind me a bit of my experience at Macworld in S.F. (the
plotters and laser printers that is)

I wonder if these trade shows come out of a mold somewhere... :)

Rodolfo

says...

(DEWAY

Quote:>NE EPLEY) writes:

>>Then to the
>>Windows World side. Lots of CD-ROM software, NT area almost vacant,
>>Windows 9?, I see almost no one sitting at the Win 9? demo computers.

>>Now, I may be accused of
>>spreading rumors and being biased, but these are legitimate insights as
>>to what was happening on Wednesday April 26, 1995 at COMDEX in Atlanta.

>>  For what it's worth, COMDEX was pretty dull beyond IBM and WARP.

>Thanks,

>If you check out the ZIFF COMDEX preview stuff you'll notice few WIN32
>software ready for COMDEX.  The biggest news events were reports on the
>redesign of *my* favorite WP, AMIPRO to WordPro.  Both 3.1 apps.

>I'm hardly surprised that WIN95 is not drawing a crowd.  With the
>M8 preview out and little softwate, there's not much to see.
>Been there, done that.

>OS/2 on the other hand has had such a low profile that people will be
>taking advantage of the opportunity to see IBM showcase the OS and
>it's native apps.

If you believed this guys report then you will believe anything. <ROTFL.

He was not accurate at all.

Dale

Hand up, everyone who believes what Brian says?

Do we have a case of the blind leading the blind?

Quote:

>Brian

[.sig deleted to prevent advertising for ataboy software]

Again Brian, why do you come here? If you are so convinced that OS/2 is going
to die, why waste your time here? Seems like your are pursuing a dead topic!
Could it be that you are really not so sure that OS/2 is going to die, or
is revenge against IBM still motivating you... get over it geesh! Life goes
on. Besides, if you wasted time like you do here, it is no wonder that your
software projects went belly up. Seems like IBM made a poor selection in having
you work with them.

--
Robin

---
Team OS/2

If you believed Dale's little bit of trash...then you most certainly
will believe anything........Hey Dale this is a record this month...17
times you have put both feet into that Big mounth of
yours........<ROTFL...

Brent

Thanks for the vote!

Desperate people do desperate things.

I know you think you are funny. But you really aren't. Anyone that was at
COMDEX and Windows World knows that what this poster said is not true.
Were you there? Windows NT got lot's of attention, esp at Motorola booth
runnig PowerPC. Of course OS/2 was there too, but the machines were not doing
much. Should we be surprised? As to Win95 not drawing a crowd, that's not
true either. Each time Microsoft did a show on Win95, it was standing room
only, much much larger area than the Warp presentations, so many more people
were there to see it. No hiding that truth.

Dale

I certainly do as I was there too.  I worked in the Doom for OS/2
booth in the larger IBM booth and my partner and I had to stand
there, both of us, all day for all 4 days because we never got
a break!  Endless stream of folks at our booth.

Microsoft probably had 10x the floor space of our booth, but not
the kind of crowds we were pulling in.

Mike Brown
SES Computing, Inc.

Author, PMMPEG OS/2 MPEG Movie player
ftp.cdrom.com /pub/os2/mmedia/PMMPEG30.ZIP

Hand up, everyone who believes what Dale says?

Steve

//-----------------------------------------------------
// Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand


// Warp Connect: Unlimited Peer shares files/printers/modems,
//               TCP/IP v3.0, Bonus Pak and Internet stuff,
//               Lan Distance Remote, Lotus Notes Client....
//               and Multiple protocols: IPX/NetBIOS/TCPIP
//               802.2, plus NetBIOS over TCPIP or IPX
//               and....MUCH MORE!

: >
: > If you believed this guys report then you will believe anything. <ROTFL.
: >
: > He was not accurate at all.
: >
: > Dale

: Hand up, everyone who believes what Dale says?

I do. [Why do I have the feeling that this will not necessarily help Dale?]

: Steve

: //-----------------------------------------------------
: // Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand


: // Warp Connect: Unlimited Peer shares files/printers/modems,
: //               TCP/IP v3.0, Bonus Pak and Internet stuff,
: //               Lan Distance Remote, Lotus Notes Client....
: //               and Multiple protocols: IPX/NetBIOS/TCPIP
: //               802.2, plus NetBIOS over TCPIP or IPX
: //               and....MUCH MORE!

                        ^^^^^^^^^
I know IBM is desperate, but isn't this a bit extreme?

And to think I get criticized for putting in my business's name
and FTP site!

Brian
--
C. Brian Sturgill
University of Utah              Ataman Software, Inc.

......

Oh dear......you both don't understand enthusiasm when you see it.

Warp Connect is a *very* good and powerful networking package, PLUS
the Bonus pack, PLUS the leading 32-bit OS on the Intel platform:

OS/2 Warp.

Funny......I don't feel at all desparate. Great products like Warp Connect
make me feel quite comfortable about OS/2 and its future.

Steve

//-----------------------------------------------------
// Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand


// Warp Connect: Unlimited Peer shares files/printers/modems,
//               TCP/IP v3.0, Bonus Pak and Internet stuff,
//               Lan Distance Remote, Lotus Notes Client....
//               and Multiple protocols: IPX/NetBIOS/TCPIP
//               802.2, plus NetBIOS over TCPIP or IPX
//               and....MUCH MORE!

Then you would be disagreeing with Dale. He was saying that the Win95
booth was flat-out busy and that IBMers were standing around doing nothing
as no one was there.........

Which conflicts with every other report I have seen.

Steve

//-----------------------------------------------------
// Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand


// Warp Connect: Unlimited Peer shares files/printers/modems,
//               TCP/IP v3.0, Bonus Pak and Internet stuff,
//               Lan Distance Remote, Lotus Notes Client....
//               and Multiple protocols: IPX/NetBIOS/TCPIP
//               802.2, plus NetBIOS over TCPIP or IPX
//               and....MUCH MORE!

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