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Date:	Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:02:52 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Re: How was Warpstock ?

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> >Please elaborate. The last info I had was that MicroSquelch had bought
> >out Connectix | VPC . . . with the expectation that the reason they did
> >so was to kill of this product line for good.

Steven replied:

> Hardly. This is typical OS/2 paranoia speaking.

Well, this particular maneuver is hardly new in the business world, and MS
did not invent it . . . . Nor did the computer sector.

> MS bought the product
> and is enhancing it to solve several issues with their own product lines.
> Complex MS products often don't play well together. This causes server
> proliferation. By running the apps inside a VM, MS can offer a path to
> server consolidation.

Interesting. If the product line continues -- whatever the reason -- I'd consider
that a good thing.

> While is was not stated explicitly by Innotek, I got the sense that they
> could do an OS/2 hosted version of the next version of the MS/Connectix
> product if they wanted to, but the numbers don't make sense.

I take it then that you (also) scoff at the estimate from the guy at Sun (quoted,
from that Brit IT publication, on VOICE List), estimating 20 million OS/2
users, presumably worldwide ? If only ! Were that figure even remotely in the
ballpark, the numbers *would* make sense.

> >This leads me to surmise
> >that you are talking about some *other* generalized emulation-layer
> >product
>
> Yes. Bob made a few too many public statements and the cat was out of the
> bag so to speak. The Serenity product will be based on the 2os2
> technology which has been available for a while and which we have already
> seen demo'ed at a SCOUG meeting.

I have no recollection of that demo at all, and wonder how I could have missed it.
I did see at least one ODIN demo (might have been one of yours), and a VPC one
that Kim did.

> The current hosts are Linux, FreeBSD and
> Windows. An OS/2 host is under development.

That's encouraging news.

Jordan

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