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Welcome to the OS/2 Warp Monthly Newsletter



The Internet and cyberspace in general is a steadily growing
presence in everyone's lives. (Chances are that it's already a
presence in your life or you wouldn't be reading this.) People
are flocking to the Internet to get their news in a more
personal, less formal and traditional manner. For example,
earlier this year Tabor Griffin Communications created a daily
electronic newsletter chronicling the events at the G7
Ministerial Conference where many countries discussed the Global
Information Infrastructure. In the entertainment world, IBM
hosted a cybercast that provided people from 140 different
countries a virtual backstage pass to the Grammy Awards.  Video
jockey, Adam Curry,  conducted on-line backstage interviews with
the presenters and the award winners.



The breadth of information available on the information highway
is both overwhelming and alluring. Just as people sometimes
think of major cosmopolitan cities,  the Internet offers just
about anything anyone could want. There are home pages for music
groups, businesses, individuals; there are news groups on
practically all imaginable topics and even the chronicling of
very personal passages and events. The Internet even provides a
medium for viewing art work and photography. If you hook up a
multimedia computer to the Internet, it can also provide movie
and music previews as well as recaps of sporting events.  There
is one home page on the Internet that even demonstrates the
dissection of a frog.



Obviously, cyberspace is an extremely potent communication
vehicle that is becoming more powerful each day. (The Internet
is growing at the rate of 10% per month.)  For IBM, it provides
additional ways for us to connect with our customers and
potential customers. This new monthly newsletter is yet another
means for IBM to share with you. We want to provide perspectives
on an ongoing basis about the OS/2 Warp brand of products such
as OS/2 Warp, IBM LAN Server and other related products. We also
want to help you get more out of your computer. If you aren't
using OS/2 Warp, we want to convince you of its power and
virtues. If you are using OS/2 Warp, we want to make sure you
are getting the most out of it.



The different sections of the newsletter cover a wide variety of
topics. Our Electronic 'Scapes section will review useful and
interesting Internet sites. The User Power section will feature
various types of users and their experiences with OS/2.
Additionally, the newsletter will cover product tips, Insights
from IBM executives and other prominent members of the computing
community, Solutions for a Small Planet, Entrepreneurs and
businesses who depend on OS/2 and interesting OS/2 shareware as
well as commercially available applications.



Each month we will feature a relevant topic.  This month we are
featuring OS/2 Warp Connect, IBM's newest OS/2 product, soon to
be available worldwide. This new offering combines all the
software in OS/2 Warp with a broad spectrum of connectivity
software in one convenient, easy-to-install package. One article
explains the rationale for producing a connectivity package and
the other article provides some background on the peer
networking environment.



Two additional features of getting information through
cyperspace are that the communication can be two-way and it's
easy to pass the information on to others. We want to know what
you think of this newsletter. We provide the Internet ID of most
of our contributors and we will all be glad to get mail from
you. There's a survey at the end of the newsletter too. Also
feel free to pass this newsletter on to others.



                                   Jeri Dube