IBM Announces Extension of Customer Support for OS/2 2.1

Support through February 1996 encourages migration to new OS/2 versions

AUSTIN, July 5, 1995...IBM announced today that it will continue to support
worldwide customers' use of OS/2 2.1 with program services through
February 1996. The move will give IBM's customers time to migrate to new
versions of OS/2. Service will be available after February on a fee
basis.

"We have listened to our customers," said Martha Gimbut, director of
Technical Service & Support, IBM Personal Software Products. "We realize
that our customers are in the process of upgrading thousands of
workstations to the latest OS/2 products. We understand our customers'
needs and the time required to make the migration and we intend to support
them."

IBM has been facilitating customer migration to the latest technologies by
providing migration classes for OS/2 customers from DOS, Windows, previous
versions of OS/2, and other platforms to OS/2 Warp.

IBM has sold 2.5 million copies of OS/2 Warp worldwide since November. The
OS/2 installed base is now more than nine million. OS/2 Warp comes
preloaded on systems from the IBM PC Company, Fujitsu Ltd.'s ICL, Toshiba,
Vobis, Escom, Legend and Osborne. Dell offers 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, began shipping in May.

Solution developer support of OS/2 is growing. In the first five months of
1995, 30 major software developers have announced development plans for
more than 70 native Warp applications on both Intel and PowerPC platforms.
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.
 
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