HF>> Does anyone know when NetScape/2 v4 will be out?
GK> I believe the best response is: When it is.  :)
HF>Sounds like an answer directly from IBM... :)
Well almost, more like direct for Netscape/IBM. Captured last month from the
usenet OS2 Advocacy newsgroup.
Date: 23 May 1997 09:43:03 -0400
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Ted DeCastri  writes:
>Greg F Walz Chojnacki wrote:
>> Face it: We're such a small part of the market that neither Netscape
>> nor IBM
>> really cares about us -- or at least about offending us.
>For what it is worth, the OS/2 Navigator development team, comprised of
>both Netscape and IBM employees, do care about our OS/2 users.  There is
>not a member on our team that has not been an OS/2 advocate for many
>years.  Although our Netscape personnel are loyal to the Netscape
>Family, and our IBM personnel are loyal to the IBM family, our team is
>extremely  loyal to the OS/2 community.  Most of us here have been with
>OS/2 for so long that the OS/2 community is our extended family.
>Our OS/2 Communicator schedule is confidential.  Although it may seem
>that we are hiding important information from our users, we are not.  It
>is our goal to put quality first, then schedule, then features.  Given
>our desire to be as closely compatible to our Win32 reference platform
>product, making our development schedule public could compromise both
>feature compatibility as well as our product quality.  This compromise
>would be unacceptable to both Netscape and IBM.  Our product will be
>accepted for release when our development team, our QA/Test team, and
>finally our management team, all agree that the product is ready for
>public use.  At that time, it is at the discretion of IBM to make our
>product publicly available.
>Relax and have a good day!
>Ted.
>_____________________________________
>  Ted DeCastri
>  Manager, OS/2 Navigator Development
>  Netscape Communications Corp.
>  501 E. Middlefield Road,   MV-048
>  Mountain View, CA   94043
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Can't be any plainer that that.
--Lynn
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