Hi Mario,

Replying to a message of Mario Semo to Brandt Everett:

 MS> L. Gerstner wrote an IBM internal note about 1.5 years ago 'either you
 MS> are ready to ship early 1995 or the product will be killed. he gave
 MS> them another full year and late 1995 IBM announced the development
 MS> stop. 

 MS> So, what do you think?

I just read what official IBM sources say:

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Date: 26 Jan 1996 17:01:36 GMT

In no way is the work on the PowerPC version of OS/2 Warp
terminated. All we said to writers at the Wall Street Journal
(as well as to other members of the media) is what we described
to IBM employees earlier this week.

What we said is that our development focus in 1996 will be on
enhancing OS/2 Warp as both a client operating system (the
MERLIN project) and as a server operating system (the OS/2 Warp
Server projects) on the Intel and Intel-compatible platforms. We
are not planning additional releases of the OS/2 Warp family on the
PowerPC platform during 1996 -- as we *just* released in
late December 1995 the OS/2 Warp (PowerPC Edition) product.

During 1996 and beyond, we plan to grow our market share for OS/2
Warp both as a client operating system and as a server operating
system on x86 PC's. And we will be doing this aggressively.
We have just not announced future releases on the PowerPC
platform.

In no way should our announcement imply that we are backing away
from the PowerPC.

John
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Thanks,
Mike

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