eComStation 2.1 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd May 2011 22:13 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
OS/2 and eComStation Yes, it's still being updated. OS/2 eComStation 2.1 has been released by Serenity Systems International and Mensys BV. The market for eComStation may not be particularly huge, but it still has its niches here and there. Since there might be folks here that aren't in the know: eComStation is the commercial continuation of IBM's OS/2, developed to support modern hardware.
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RE: Swimming with the crowd
by pantheraleo on Tue 24th May 2011 19:16 UTC in reply to "Swimming with the crowd"
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if it were not for the fact that the Harold Campings of eCS are just guessing and projecting around.


The difference is that I am not predicting a future event. OS/2 died a long time ago. A few die-hard hold outs just aren't willing to accept that.

1) If you talk about prices you must not forget the TCO.


Which is probably higher with eCS, because of the difficulty in obtaining modern hardware that is fuklly supported.

2) Former OS/2 or eCS users pay considerably less than other users.


And that means what? That that die-hard OS/2 users might keep using it, and might pay less. But new users pay more? That's not exactly going to attract any new users then, is it?

3) The "Home & Student" license can be used on up to five production machines.


The "GPL" license means I can install Linux on an infinite number of systems without paying anything. And the home and student edition of of ecomstation only comes with six months of software subscription services. So you will stop getting updates after 6 months unless you pay again.

5) What makes some OS/2 and eCS adversaries that much nervous?


I'm not an adverary. Like I said, OS/2 was, at one time, my favorite OS. But unfortunately, IBM seriously botched the marketing of it. They also seriously botched strategic planning a far as what they wanted to do with it. First pushing it onto home systems, then saying they didn't care about home users. Then they made the mistake of thinking the Power chips were the future of computing and spent all of their OS/2 resources porting OS/2 to PowerPC, only to back out of that and then back port it to x86 again. They botched everything about it so badly that it is, for all practical purposes, dead now. At some point, I had to move on and stop living in the past.

Edited 2011-05-24 19:31 UTC

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