EComStation 2.0 GA To Be Released May 14 133
martiniturbide writes "After a long delay, eComStation 2.0 GA will finally become reality. It will be released in time to be presented at the Warpstock Europe 2010 event which will be held in Trier, Germany, from May 14 to 16. We consider eComStation 2.0 to be the biggest overhaul of OS/2 so far. Together with a team of both hired and volunteer developers, we have extended the functionality, removed limitations, updated hardware support as far as possible, and resolved close to 1000 issues that had been reported since the release of eComStation 1.2R. The new eComStation 2.0 GA is the result of several years of combined efforts and investments."
Re:Oh my God, my Eyes! (Score:3, Insightful)
Ummm... what Win3.1 look and feel? You actually need to use the WPS before you make such an erroneous comment. In EIGHTEEN YEARS, Microsoft STILL has not been able to correctly duplicate the functionality of the WPS - even though they had a cross license agreement that allowed them access to (and rights to use) the code.
Re:For what application? (Score:3, Insightful)
That's not a market. It's an installed base. There may be a handful of people out there interested in buying new OS/2. No more.
Re:For what application? (Score:3, Insightful)
That's true, but there are only a handful of people out there interested in buying new Windows.
It's the installed base that forces the issue.
Re:For what application? (Score:2, Insightful)
Do you think any/many of them actually want a new version of Windows? Short answer: no. In fact, every new release is a gamble for Microsoft. If they change things too much, users might as well switch to Mac OS X, or Linux, for all their retained knowledge will be worth.
Re:For what application? (Score:3, Insightful)
And most of those people don't care what OS comes on their new computer as long as they can figure out how to get to google and play farmville.
How many people out there are explicitly buying windows 7? Hardly anyone.
Re:For what application? (Score:3, Insightful)
There are people who use what works, and there are people who hawk tech for the sake of it. I don't bitch that my house is 100s of years old, or that the trees at the back of my garden are decades old, or that some of my furniture was built in Empire Asia, or that the workhorse car is a decade old, or that my landline telephone is 15 years old, or that my mouse is 8 years old, or that some of the medications in my cabinet were formulated half a century ago or that the general coverage receiver on my desk was built in the '80s... you know why?
They're all good shit which does the job and lasts.
And I couldn't give a fuck if you want to sell me some second rate mass market junk which will be shinier on the surface but be built to last a tenth as long and not do the actual job nearly as well.
BTW, have you actually tried to develop hardware for the Linux kernel? Something driven on OS/2 15 years ago works on OS/2 today. But Linux has this perpetual habit of changing the API with the excuse that someone will be available to update and recompile driver source. So, unless you're planning to hire some guy to maintain all custom hardware drivers, a Linux install will be quickly behind the state of the art in features and security.
Re:For what application? (Score:3, Insightful)
My angle? Are you SERIOUSLY claiming that it is MORE DIFFICULT to port a LOB app written in Java from one OS to another than it is to port one that is written in C or C++ or CICS/Cobol or Delphi or something like that? Really?