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- From: dch2@engr.uark.edu (David Hobbs)
- Subject: Re: LAN Manager v2.1 and OS/2 v2.0
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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 02:09:34 GMT
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- I take by following this thread that Microsoft's Lan Manager will work with
- OS/2 2.0. The company I work for is almost entirely a Microsoft house (not
- wishing to start a religious war here). At any rate, my company supports
- a lan running under OS/2 1.3 for a client of ours. I really like OS/2 2.0,
- but my bosses seem to think that NT is the end of OS/2, so they aren't too
- interested upgrading our client's sites to OS/2 2.0 right now. I think they
- are going to wait for NT and peer-to-peer networking that's supposedly
- built-in.
-
- In the near future, I will have a major influence on software purchase
- decisions. Could someone please give me some info on what specifically
- is needed to run Lan Manager under OS/2 2.0? If I can upgrade one site
- successfully to OS/2 2.0, I may be able to get them to look closer at 2.0
- instead of NT for all of our in-house applications.
-
- The company I work for develops bar code and data collection systems.
- We are currently using Windows 3.1 for the front end of all of our
- applications for interface consistency. Right now, I cannot justify
- our changing to OS/2 for all of our work. (trying to avoid advocacy-
- type issues here...) *ALL* of our work that is. We use Visual Basic.
- While not blazingly fast, it suffices for the type of work we do, and
- it is easy to learn is quite powerful despite its simplicity. Does
- anyone know if there is anything similar in the works for OS/2? Being
- a small company, we cannot afford to train all of our engineers to learn
- the PM API.
-
- Feel free to follow up on this thread in whatever newsgroup is appropriate
- for the part of the discussion you choose, but please email responses
- concerning LanMan and OS/2 to me at the address below.
-
- Thanks,
-
- D.
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- | David Hobbs, ex-Graduate Student | dch2@engr.uark.edu |
- | and ex-Evil TA, CSEG Dept., | |
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