OS/2 Warp Finds Popular Support Among Family and Home Users

AUSTIN, May 18, 1995...IBM announced today that in an analysis of OS/2 Warp
buyers, 49 percent of new customers report that home and family computing
is the primary way that they use OS/2 Warp. Fifty-five percent cite OS/2
Warp's features as the top reason for buying the operating system,
according to the OS/2 Warp User Profile results. The profile was developed
from a sampling of more than 65,000 early purchasers of OS/2 Warp. Upgrade
of America, a leading software registration expert, compiled the
information from customer registration data.

Early feedback from the findings indicates that 76 percent of buyers use
486-based computer systems, 78 percent have disk drives larger than 300
MB, 44 percent have systems with about 8MB of memory and 41 percent have
16MB or more.

Seventy-one percent of purchasers have CD-ROM capability, supporting IBM's
efforts to provide products on that medium. Ninety-two percent of buyers
use modems and so can utilize OS/2 Warp's easy access to the Internet and
a variety of online services. Only 23 percent of the users are
LAN-connected, as that segment has been deferring purchase for delivery of
OS/2 Warp Connect.

"We've been successful in developing a feature set that meets the needs of
the home market," said Wally Casey, director of marketing, IBM Personal
Software Products. "With the shipment of OS/2 Warp Connect last week, we
anticipate strong demand by users who want to be LAN-connected."

Brett Coryell, a computer science graduate student attending the University
of Virginia, bought OS/2 Warp for work at home. He uses it to write
reports, dragging and dropping charts from one application into another,
grabbing data off the Internet, and logging on to his school's host
system.

"Instead of working on systems at different locations, I get it all done at
home, at the same time, on one computer," said Coryell. "OS/2 Warp's
multitasking gives me the productivity I want."

Seventy-six percent of buyers report that they put the full power of their
PCs to good use by teaming 486 systems with OS/2 Warp's superior speed.
OS/2 Warp exploits all of the memory management and other advanced
features of the 386, 486 and Pentium processors. OS/2 Warp also can run
effectively on as little as 4MB of memory.

"It's the best tool I've found," said Philip Clyde, assistant editor of
Dell Magazines in New York City. From his home, he uses OS/2 to construct
crossword puzzles for the magazine and simultaneously run many of his
applications, such as a dictionary or Internet connection for checking the
validity of words. "Applications load a lot faster and, with the small
amount of memory I have on my machine, OS/2 Warp lets me run more apps
than I could before."

A recent study by Computer Intelligence InfoCorp (CII) reports that sales
of OS/2 Warp increased more than 300 percent during the first five months
that it was offered.

IBM has sold more than two million copies of OS/2 Warp worldwide since
November. The product is the third generation of IBM's award-winning
32-bit operating system. It features impressive usability features,
slimmed-down system requirements and comes with a BonusPak of more than a
dozen exploitive OS/2 applications. OS/2 Warp comes preloaded on systems
from the IBM PC Company, Toshiba, Vobis, Escom, Legend and Osborne. Dell
and CompuAdd offer OS/2 Warp as a preload option to customers when they
order PCs.

OS/2 Warp Connect, IBM's one-box solution for integrated networking
capabilities and easy access to the Internet and other online services,
shipped on May 17.

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