http://www.osnews.com/story/18103/eComStation_2_0_RC1_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:09:52 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?248830 http://osnews.com/thread?248830 keep on going guys. though i wonder now that scitech will no longer be doing there snap graphics tool kit what eComstation will go to instead. Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poundsmack) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?248851 http://osnews.com/thread?248851 Snap will be supported for a while. Scitech is trying to sell the code base but its still updating and supporting it, Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?248867 http://osnews.com/thread?248867 Nice, but does anyone actually USE eComStation commercially? Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stooovie) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?248868 http://osnews.com/thread?248868 Banks and insurance companies. I worked at Prudential a few years back and nearly every desktop was Warp 4 or eComstation. Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?248875 http://osnews.com/thread?248875 It's called "public beta" guys...
Public beta actually allows a lot of potential customers who have never heard of, seen, or paid for a previous product to actually get to try what you're offering.
Another advantage of Public beta OS is that a lot of techies love to play, and enjoy playing with OS's before release, and some will even go as far as reporting bugs, this is also another good way to get interest in your product.
It really is a shame to close off beta and RC testing for products such as OS's that will get hammered in a lot of different areas by different people, the more testing ahead of release the better.
Anyway, best of luck on your launch. Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (The Lone OSer) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?248895 http://osnews.com/thread?248895 I don't think think these guys are really trying to take on Microsoft and Apple to extend their userbase, but seem more interested in to holding onto the old OS/2 market and milking for all its worth. Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bsharitt) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?248899 http://osnews.com/thread?248899 I wonder if they would be allowed to do a public beta as eComStation is still based on Warp 4 licensed from IBM so I should think that they have to pay royalty fees on each copy, whether sold or not. Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (digitaldisaster) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?248906 http://osnews.com/thread?248906 This almost seem like the Y2K bug to me. I know it cost money to convert software, but just how long do banks and insurance compagnies think they have with OS/2?

My Bank here (CIBC) was on OS/2 but a couple years ago they moved to Windows with better, up-to-date software.

One day or another, they will have to scrap what they use and start over. C#/.NET (MONO) anyone? Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (truckweb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?248907 http://osnews.com/thread?248907 "I know it cost money to convert software, but just how long do banks and insurance compagnies think they have with OS/2?"

As long as it gets the job done it would be foolish to change it.

"One day or another, they will have to scrap what they use and start over. C#/.NET (MONO) anyone?"

Well, one day or another they'd have to scrap C*/Mono too. Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?248954 http://osnews.com/thread?248954 As long as the software still does the job, the longer you wait to upgrade, the more money you save.

Banking software is expensive to make because it requires a lot of testing as the outcome of an error can be very damaging. Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jessta) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?249057 http://osnews.com/thread?249057 I don't think they can ... unless they were to get permission from IBM to release another updated LiveCD version. That would be more useful than nothing, IMO. Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rcsteiner) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?249243 http://osnews.com/thread?249243 Beta 2 of panaroma VESA driver has been released for eComStation software subscription customers.

http://en.ecomstation.ru/projects/panorama/

The performance on most systems is close to SNAP. It still being developed further.

To my best understanding there is no support on SNAP anymore as Scitech is selling there technology. But view the newsgroups of Scitech.... Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rwklein) Comments