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Applications
Advantages:
For developer:
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Companies:
History:
(Бонусы)
Advice:
(Барьеры и решения)
Technologies:
(Применение в науке, лаборатории, ..)
Solutions
New eComStation:
Future:
(Ссылки на другие сайты)
(Картинка дня)
OS/2 artefacts:
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2010-06-08 18:07:19 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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eComStation.RU is ready to publish reviews of eCS 2.0.
It's not enough to review the installer,
please demonstrate new features of the operating system,
which applications to install? How to configure peripheral devices?
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2010-06-05 01:11:35 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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Let's remember what happened in june several years ago?
- 1994 - OS/2 2.11 SMP. This version supports multiprocessor systems (up to 16 processors)
- 1996 - IBM started beta-testing of new OS/2 Warp version
- 1999 - Stardock started the negotiations with IBM to create new client version based on Aurora
- 2000 - Bob St.John (Serenity Systems) grants an interview about new operating system eComStation
- 2002 - The first version of eComStation 1.05 on russian language is released!
- 2004 - Golden Code released Java 1.4 for OS/2
- 2006 - first screenshots of native OpenOffice.org 2.0 for eComStation.
- 2008 - The users (with large efforts) launched ethernet and wifi drivers on ASUS Eee PC netbooks
What to expect in 2010? Every user can influence on the history
of eComStation, you can write a review or prepare external specification for
development of new application.
source: eComStation History site
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2010-05-28 01:16:23 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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A) More and more users receive reg.key for new eComStation 2.0
and start downloading .iso-images
(wait for email from Mensys BV if you have eCS Software Subscription).
B) The Hardware Database contains
some reports about
installation of eComStation 2.0 GA on new hardware now.
Share your results with other users!
Useful links:
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2010-05-26 03:19:59 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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The users want get eCS 2.0 ASAP.
Mensys is making efforts to automate the process of keys generation,
provide access to .iso image, update the sites.
Please don't flood the forums and support service with long emails,
make short questions, so Mensys can use the questions to form FAQ.
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2010-05-14 14:44:24 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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The conference Warpstock Europe 2010 started already (Trier, Germany). We publish remarks and photos from the conference on this page. |
2010-04-25 17:23:07 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [OS2VOICE, Mensys BV]
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First of all, Mensys BV would like to take this opportunity to thank the
OS/2 and eComStation community for their continued support.
eComStation 2.0 GA
After a long delay, eComStation 2.0 GA will finally become reality. It will
be released in time to be presented at the Warpstock Europe 2010 event which
starts on May 14, 2010.
Mensys considers eComStation 2.0 to be the biggest overhaul of OS/2 so far.
Together with a team of both hired and volunteer developers, we have extended
the functionality, removed limitations, updated hardware support as far as
possible, and resolved almost 1000 issues that had been reported since the
release of eComStation 1.2R. The new eComStation 2.0 GA is the result of
several years of combined efforts and investments.
Into the Future
Over several years Mensys has made considerable investments into the
eComStation product and this persistance is rewarded. In spite of the
general notion of OS/2 being an obsolete operating system, 2009 has
been the most successful year in terms of sales to corporate customers
so far, with the first quarter of 2010 showing a further increase in
sales compared to 2009.
Mensys had always been positive about a much higher business usage of OS/2
remaining than generally assumed and is now proven right. While the majority
of enterprise users will not advertise to have stayed with OS/2, it is still
widely used in areas like, e.g., embedded systems, mission critical control
systems, and running existing, large in-house applications. These users are
and will be in need of an update that enables them to use current hardware
and removes existing shortcomings: eComStation.
This enables Mensys to make increased re-investments and to make the
commitment that we will continue to support and further develop the
eComStation product.
While enterprise sales provide the financial base, Mensys also has
always been well aware of the importance of the OS/2 and eComStation
community. That is why we have been ? and will be ? closely involved
with it, be it by funding the independent OS/2 and eComStation news
system, supporting OS/2 and eComstation related projects, or helping
to get another Warpstock event off the ground.
Warpstock Europe 2010
On behalf of the event team, Team OS/2 Region Trier e.V., and the Warpstock
Europe Steering Group, we would like to invite you to come to Warpstock
Europe 2010. The event will take place in Trier, Germany from May 14 to
16, 2010.
This is an excellent opportunity to get the latest information about
developments in the OS/2 and eComStation world, get to know the people
behind the projects, and exchange with other developers and users. Learn
about topics ranging from the roadmap for future eComStation development
over interoperability with other systems to matters of general interest
like aspects of internet related law.
Please note that accomodation space in Trier is scarce due to parallel
events, so be sure to make your reservation in time!
For more information see: http://www.warpstock.eu/
Best regards,
Mensys BV and the eComStation Development Team
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2010-04-13 23:05:12 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [Martin Iturbide, www.os2world.com]
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Posted by Martin Iturbide - Monday, 12 April 2010
"I found this article on the internet. It is dated April 12 of 2010.
If it is a April's Joke is is very cruel one for us ;)
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/
Should IBM consider a return of OS/2?
"A systems integrator close to the computing giant swears there's a move
afoot inside IBM to reintroduce the operating system -- revered by some,
reviled by many --before it faded out more than 10 years ago.
He has heard this from inside Big Blue itself...."
Article by Barbara Darrow.
Discussion of the topic on the forum of www.os2world.com
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2010-03-20 13:53:52 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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eComStation is ~ 10 years old
We have
updated the history of eComStation. (russian language).
New facts are marked with blue circle.
Help us to collect more facts:
- Which innovations were implemented in IBM OS/2 Warp?
- Which office suites (and when) were available for OS/2 and eComStation?
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2010-03-18 00:37:32 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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You can download the image of Bootable OS/2 USB flashdisk
from the site:
http://ecomstation.ru/usbboot
Please send testimonials and results of testing
присылайте via web-form
(please mention, can we publish your report? can we mention your name?).
?
The bootable USB flash disk is aimed to repair the PC,
to test eComStation on new hardware, to aggregate system information.
We invite 1-2 people to the project "Bootable eComStation USB flashdisk".
You can send the ideas, how to improve the bootable image
via web-form -
we will add the ideas to the queue of ideas
(please mention, can we mention your name?)
ATTENTION: Read before writing the image to USB flash disk:
- do this ONLY if you know how to use DFSee program,
else you can damage the data on your harddrive.
- If you have several eComStation computers, then
write the image from the PC which doesn't contain important data.
Some users have lost their harddisks after experiments with flash disks.
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2010-03-02 17:10:58 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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The users may join testing of eComStation/Rus 2.0 RC7 (release-candidate).
Features:
- installation from USB CD-ROM
- Genmac Wrapper automatical installation
The disk is assembled in Japan by Alex Taylor.
Additional information:
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2010-02-19 16:55:39 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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Russian users which buy eComStation before March 8, get useful bonus:
"eComStation frequently asked questions and answers" brochure.
European users can buy this brochure via
Mensys shop
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2010-02-18 18:54:29 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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The users are interested to discuss:
"My operating system: eComStation, web-browser: Firefox.
Which bank do you recommend?
I am going manage my account via web-browser.
In other words, Which internet bank do you recommend for eComStation user"
Let's fill this table:
- %Date% --
%Name of bank, country, city% -- can you view the account balance and messages? --
can you sign the documents? -- more notes? -- %User%
- 2010/02 -- Alfa-bank for companies, Saint-Petersburg --
View of account balance, messages, history works OK --
I can't sign the payment orders because no support for
Aladdin eToken key -- No other remarks -- From: Eugene Gorbunoff
- ABN-AMRO ??
- Deutsche Postbank ??
- ..
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2009-12-28 15:34:58 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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Many companies are using illegal copies of eComStation in Russia and Ukraine.
We remind about the importance of the legalization.
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2009-09-15 13:45:05 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eComStation@yahoogroups.com]
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Alex Taylor said in
eComStation@yahoogroups.com
RC7 includes a new feature which may not be obvious, so I'm making a small
announcement about it... because I would like testing and feedback on it.
For users who are too impatient to read the long description below, the
exective summary is this: you can now dynamically change the font used on
(most) dialogs throughout the system, without suffering from clipped text
on controls (up to a point, at least). The WPS properties notebooks are
exempt from this, sadly; it mostly applies to secondary dialogs. Read the
details below for a description of the feature, its limitations,
advantages, and disadvantages.
All versions of eComStation have included redesigned dialogs based on
Richard Castle's superb 'Dialog Enhancer' product. The main features of
these dialogs have been (a) improved layout of controls - generally
intended to make them more attractive, more user-friendly, and/or more
space-efficient; and (b) standardized use of the 'WarpSans' font.
These dialogs have received incremental updates (various bugfixes and minor
tweaks here and there) over the years. However, RC7 marks the first major
overhaul of the entire system, and so testing and feedback would be much
appreciated.
The major change is this: most of the dialogs are NO LONGER hard-coded to
use 9.WarpSans as the font. Instead, they are designed with the system
default font (usually System Proportional). This was done for two main
reasons:
- eStyler 1.1 (introduced in eCS 2.0) includes a feature to set all
dialogs to a user-defined font (at least for dialogs which don't have
any specific font coded). This is set (during eCS installation) to
9.WarpSans by default. So it's no longer necessary to set every
individual dialog to use WarpSans.
Moreover, because this feature allows users to set potentially larger
fonts for all dialogs, it made more sense to (re)design the dialogs for
use with System Proportional, which is one of the largest fonts
available. Thus, you can set the dialog font (in eStyler) to System
Proportional or anything smaller, and text should still display
correctly.
- I was persuaded, in no small part thanks to Jim Read, that designing
dialogs for WarpSans was a bad idea... because it causes the dialogs to
become completely munged up if the PM default dialog font is ever
changed. By this, I'm referring not to the eStyler feature, but the
built-in PM_SystemFonts key "DefaultFont". Changing this key sets the
dialog font system-wide, but unlike the eStyler feature it also changes
the default dialog unit (DU) size, causing all dialog controls to shrink
if the font size is smaller than System Proportional. (Jim pointed out
that he recommends all his users set this key for various reasons, and
that it's automatically set by some video drivers as well.) It, or a
close equivalent, is also set automatically (indeed, it cannot be
UN-set) on all DBCS versions of OS/2.
Basically, designing all dialogs for System Proportional will avoid the
problem of dialog controls being cropped if DefaultFont is ever set or
changed.
In summary, most secondary dialogs are no longer coded to use 9.WarpSans.
(The improved layout derived from Dialog Enhancer is still present,
although of course it had to be reworked a bit in some cases.)
I fully anticipate this to be a rather controversial change, but it was not
something I did lightly, or without carefully considering the various
ramifications. I was convinced, in the end, that this was the most
advantageous approach, regardless of its corresponding disadvantages (for
which, see below).
ADVANTAGES
- You now have much more complete control over the appearance of dialogs.
Specifically most secondary dialogs can now use almost any font,
without causing clipped controls. up to a point, at least. You can set
this using eStyler (if you don't need to use a font larger than System
Proportional), or the PM "DefaultFont" key if you don't mind the
system-wide rescaling of dialog controls this causes. (The latter may
result in problems with third-party applications, so I personally
recommend using eStyler.)
This should be useful to users with vision problems, or those running
on extremely high video resolutions.
- Systems which have the "DefaultFont" key set in OS2.INI should no longer
see clipped text on dialogs.
DISADVANTAGES
- Since all dialogs must now 'work' with fonts as large as System
Proportional, almost all dialogs are necessarily much larger than they
were, and the spacing of controls is sometimes rather wide (though not
generally as wide as they were in the original, unmodified IBM dialogs).
In particular, when the default font is set to 9.WarpSans (or another
small font) using the eStyler method, controls on many dialogs may seem
unusually widely-spaced. Some users may find this annoying, although I
have generally tried to design the dialogs such as to minimize the
phenomenon.
(Using the "DefaultFont" method will largely avoid this problem.)
- Because of the potentially disruptive nature of setting the
"DefaultFont" key, SBCS versions of eCS use the eStyler method by
default. However, this of course depends on eStyler being installed.
If you don't install eStyler, dialogs will therefore display using
System Proportional, which you may find large and ugly. This also means
that most dialogs will be limited to System Proportional during parts of
the OS installation (before eStyler gets installed).
(Conversely, for various technical reasons, DBCS versions of eCS will
use the "DefaultFont" key (or rather, its DBCS equivalent) and have the
eStyler feature disabled by default.)
- Another point worth mentioning is that listbox controls don't seem to react
very well to having their font changed by eStyler: you tend to get
artifacts from scrolling at the bottom of the list control. For this
reason, I had to retain the hardcoded WarpSans on a couple of dialogs,
notably the system File dialog.
It should be pointed out, however, that this problem was present (mostly in
third-party applications) even without my changes to the system dialogs, so
it's not actually a problem with this redesign.
(Actually, I've recently discovered that setting the LS_NOADJUSTPOS style
on the listbox may eliminate this problem, so I will probably experiment
with using that in future updates.)
I should also note that dialogs where the font is actually set to WarpSans
programmatically (like all the WPS system properties notebooks) will still
be WarpSans, regardless of your font settings... but they should receive
the other advantages (i.e. no clipped text with "DefaultFont").
(However, I've noticed something very interesting about the WPS properties
notebooks. It seems that the font is hardcoded to WarpSans, but the point
size is actually dynamic to some extent. I discovered this after
installing my "10.WarpSans" font (available on my website), and all the WPS
properties notebooks now have larger 10-point text on my laptop (1400x1005)
...except, noticeably, the ones from XWorkplace, which do appear hard-coded
to 9-point.)
Finally, let me add that the avoidance of clipped text is entirely
dependent on me having properly re-tuned all of the dialogs. If you do
find a system dialog with clipped text, please report it to me so that I
may correct it.
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2009-09-07 19:49:59 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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Information for users with modern computers (manufactured in 2004 and later)
A. Updated files:
B. Feedback:
C. Additional information:
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2009-08-31 20:16:37 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]
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eComStation may attract new users if it's commercially successful.
OS/2 (eComStation) is alive while people are using and improving the system. The developers of solutions ensure long life for our operating system because computers with OS/2 make money for their customers year by year. The developers bring new industrial technologies to OS/2, feed support service, fill OS/2 with unique features to keep the solutions competitive.
What's new: (homepage of solutions!)
- Added link to web-site: Prolong the life of your OS/2-based ATM fleet with eComStation
- Added reference to Touchvoice Corp -- CTI (Computer Telephony Integration)
- Added reference to Massimo's web-server solution.
- New page "Customers" - post information about your company there (if your company is using 2 or more licenses of eCS)
[Name, web-site, comments]
- Help us enumerate areas of usage for: "eComStation - universal system"
Why should you write the story today?
- You should do this to protect your investments made into OS/2 platform.
- OS/2 users are located in different countries and cities. They will read the story because of OS/2 word :) And spread the information about your company and products among own colleagues.
- The developer of the operating system will get information about your requirements and improve OS to satisfy them.
- Your story gives stimulus to thousands of users, developers and companies.
- It's easy. Solution story is based on usual product flyer.
Your participation:
- Businessmen - publish new story for Solutions page
- Tech.specialist -- write the story about eComStation in your company.
- The developers may join the development of Point-of-sale toolkit
- OS/2 fans - You can support the development of libraries for solutions
via DevCon project -> Budget
Where to collect solutions? www.ecomstation.ru site is hosting Solutions list since 2002. Yyou can publish german, dutch, english texts there.
How to write Solutions story? Take the flyer of your product, add Introduction, add one-two paragraphs about advantages of OS/2 usage, add 2 advertisement photos/screenshots, 2 screenshots of back-end demonstating usage of OS/2.
Use the web-form to send your contact information
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