Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 4th Dec 2001 17:47 UTC
IBM's OS/2 has a great history as a workstation operating system, it was a major alternative OS in the '90s. At its peak time in the mid-'90s OS/2 had about 2 million users but the Windows NT and Windows 95 releases broke its further development. This year Serenity Systems has released a new client version of OS/2. This article will introduce you to what OS/2 is all about. You will learn its history, its user interface, and its power under the hood. The article is also accompanied by a number of screenshots.
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"With a price of $299 for the normal version and $399 for the version that supports SMP"....
I think it would be interesting to note some of the street prices for the Windows products (from the latest Micro Warehouse catelog):
WinXP/Professional (full version): $299.95 (upgrade): $199.95
W2K Prof (full version): $279.95 (upgrade): $189.95
So, the SRP price for eCS is at par with the *street price* of Windows - and what do you get with the Windows packge? Just the operating system. No Office suites (that's another $479.95 for office XP Professional - full version), no Desktop-On-Call (another $40 or so), no DHCP/DDNS servers (not avilable unless you get the server), no firewall (another ???), no HobLink/X11 server (another $2xx), no Anti-Virus program (another ??), no ..... (it's a long list).
So, for SMB, eCS packs in tremendous value for their bucks.