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  3. From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
  4. Subject: IBM Awards OS/2 Gold Ambassador Honors
  5. Message-ID: <1684F8E87.MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu>
  6. Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
  7. Organization: CARD
  8. Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:08:07 GMT
  9. Lines: 59
  10.  
  11.                      IBM AWARDS OS/2 GOLD AMBASSADOR HONORS                                                                                           
  12.                                                                                                                                                       
  13.      WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., August 25, 1992 . . . IBM today recognized 15                                                                                
  14.      members of the OS/2* Ambassador Program for their extraordinary                                                                                  
  15.      personal initiative in promoting IBM's new operating system, OS/2 2.0,                                                                           
  16.      at the grass roots level and named them Gold Ambassadors.                                                                                        
  17.                                                                                                                                                       
  18.      The Ambassador Program is designed to recognize IBM employees who take                                                                           
  19.      personal initiative and make outstanding contributions to the success                                                                            
  20.      of OS/2.  The Gold Ambassador designation recognizes the highest level                                                                           
  21.      of creativity, ingenuity, professionalism and personal sacrifice of                                                                              
  22.      IBM employees who, on their own time and outside of their job respon-                                                                            
  23.      sibility, take the OS/2 2.0 story out of the office and into their                                                                               
  24.      local community.                                                                                                                                 
  25.                                                                                                                                                       
  26.      "The success of OS/2 2.0 across the nation is a tribute to the passion                                                                           
  27.      of the Gold Ambassadors who have promoted the product on their own                                                                               
  28.      time," says Lucy Baney, IBM's Personal Systems director for Program-                                                                             
  29.      ming Systems Market Development.                                                                                                                 
  30.                                                                                                                                                       
  31.      As an example of the personal initiative employed by the Gold Ambassa-                                                                           
  32.      dors, IBM employee Jim Agnew introduced OS/2 2.0 to thousands of                                                                                 
  33.      people at a national air show, with 900,000 attendees, at a cost of                                                                              
  34.      under $400.  The air show was 1,000 miles from his home.                                                                                         
  35.                                                                                                                                                       
  36.      Another Gold Ambassador, Hector Hernandez, has presented OS/2 2.0 at                                                                             
  37.      over 100 customer briefings worldwide and produced videotapes on the                                                                             
  38.      product in both English and Spanish.                                                                                                             
  39.                                                                                                                                                       
  40.      Currently, there are more than 18,000 OS/2 Ambassadors from a broad                                                                              
  41.      range of IBM divisions in the United States, Canada and Europe.  The                                                                             
  42.      program was started when IBM employees beta testing OS/2 2.0 began to                                                                            
  43.      show an incredible amount of enthusiasm for the product.  The company                                                                            
  44.      decided to tap into the groundswell of excitement.  That subculture                                                                              
  45.      grew into today's Ambassador program.  All 18,000 OS/2 Ambassadors                                                                               
  46.      volunteered for the job.                                                                                                                         
  47.                                                                                                                                                       
  48.      "The Ambassador Program is unique in its own right," says Baney.                                                                                 
  49.      "Several Fortune 500 companies have seen the internal and external                                                                               
  50.      benefits of our grass roots effort and have called to inquire about                                                                              
  51.      implementing a similar program."                                                                                                                 
  52.                                                                                                                                                       
  53.      All 15 Gold Ambassadors will receive, at their choice, either an IBM                                                                             
  54.      laptop computer (Model L40 with 10 MB RAM and OS/2 2.0) or a cash                                                                                
  55.      equivalent of $1,500.                                                                                                                            
  56.                                                                                                                                                       
  57.      OS/2 is an advanced 32-bit operating system that supports DOS,                                                                                   
  58.      Windows** and OS/2 applications in a single package.  This advanced                                                                              
  59.      platform offers true multitasking --allowing concurrent execution of                                                                             
  60.      multiple software programs -- and enables users to choose from tens of                                                                           
  61.      thousands of available applications.                                                                                                             
  62.                                      # # #                                                                                                            
  63.                                                                                                                                                       
  64.      *    Indicates trademark or registered trademark of the                                                                                          
  65.           International Business Machines Corporation.                                                                                                
  66.                                                                                                                                                       
  67.                                                                                                                                                       
  68.      **   The following is a trademark of the indicated company:                                                                                      
  69.           Windows (Microsoft Corp.).                                                                                                                  
  70.