Re: OS/2 - Preparation for the demise



Make the business case here; Tell us why IBM would stop selling OS2
licenses to its Enterprise Customers, shut down maintenance of the OS2 --
yet according to you shills is still going to sell OS2 licenses to booby?


-->Doesn't the stupidity of the claims ever make you shills think on your
own?




In <o%sCe.1484$Ox6.854@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 07/17/2005
at 01:25 PM, Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:



>Hi Timmy

>The OS/2 Guy wrote:
>> Peter Brown wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> An alternative is ecomstation who have posted a brief response to the
>>> IBM announcement called "eComStation in 2006 and Beyond"
>>> http://www.ecomstation.com/news.phtml?action=fullnews&id=1074&title=eComStation%20in%202006%20and%20Beyond
>>
>>
>>
>> Such a purchase would be foolish and money down the
>> drain for three very good reasons:
>>
>> (1) Serenity cannot sell any new licenses for OS/2
>> beyond December 31, 2005. IBM has not renewed
>> their OEM agreement beyond that date. If you
>> bought eCS today (instead of buying OS/2 directly
>> from IBM) you'd get an older version of OS/2 and
>> you'll have to pay additional fees to get any OS/2
>> updates, enhancements, drivers, etc., through the
>> third party vendor, Serenity Systems. If Serenity
>> Systems is unable to pony up the funds to purchase
>> those upgrades on behalf of their eCS customers,
>> you won't get them. You'll then have to wait until
>> someone volunteers to rework them into the proprietary
>> eCS product, beta test them for months on end, then
>> live with the bugs caused by eComStation. And you
>> are entirely dependent on Serenity and their one and
>> only volunteer for these updates. Now, if you purchased
>> a maintenance contract for $62 from IBM (Passport
>> Advantage) you won't have to pay a thing for any
>> items IBM generates for their large OS/2 Enterprise
>> customers and they will install in OS/2 easily.


>The above looks like your "normal" abnormal twaddle. Suggest you have a
>read of the eCS statement - not that Windows Users such as you are that
>interested in the future of OS/2 and derivatives anyway.


>>
>> (2) You'd be risking your personal and confidential
>> information, such as your credit card numbers,
>> name, social security number, billing address
>> and anything else of a personal nature that the
>> distributor of eCS requires of you. This is because
>> the owner of eCS (Bob St. John) has already
>> demonstrated his willingness to illegally post that
>> type of information in public forums. For *that* reason
>> alone you should avoid the purchase of eCS or
>> any other item from the distributor, Mensys of The
>> Netherlands (St. John has access to their records
>> and reveals the personal information on those
>> records in public forums.).


>More Twaddle.


>>
>> (3) eComStation simply doesn't work. As a licensed
>> user of every release of eCS, it has failed to work
>> as advertised. You would be wasting nearly $1,000
>> which is the cost Serenity eventually pulls out of you.
>> They do this by piece-mealing you to death. It doesn't
>> work? Did you get the latest updates? Go back to
>> Mensys and get them (for $99). It won't install? Did
>> you get the downloaded version or the hard copy on
>> CD? Go back to Mensys and order the hard copy
>> CD version (another $99). The piece-meal game
>> never ends and just when you think it does, Serenity
>> announces a "refresh" is available then posts another
>> marketing propaganda that promises to give you the
>> "killer application". That killer is dead. It was originally
>> introduced as "WiseMachine" and was supposed to
>> install eComStation within 32seconds and be available
>> to install every application in mere seconds.
>>

>And yet more Twaddle.

>Timmy, keep taking the pills :-)

>Pete

.

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