Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Jun 2007 22:09 UTC, submitted by Joachim Benjamins
OS/2 and eComStation "Serenity Systems International and Mensys BV are pleased to announce the immediate availability of eComStation 2.0 RC1. This release is available to customers with an active Software Subscriptions Services subcription." There are a lot of changes and new features; you can find them in the announcement and changelog.
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If they really wanted interest...
by The Lone OSer on Tue 19th Jun 2007 01:00 UTC
The Lone OSer
Member since:
2005-07-11

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.

bsharitt Member since:
2005-07-07

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.

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digitaldisaster Member since:
2006-01-02

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.

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rcsteiner Member since:
2005-07-12

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.

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