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Re: XyWrite udner Linux [was:Partitioned drives, Win98 & otherOSes]

** Reply to message from "J. R. Fox"  on Thu, 21 Nov 2002
21:16:22 -0800


> I have only kudos for Serenity Systems. I suppose they
> have been persuasive, but to me it feels like the support they have wangled from
> IBM is more acquiesent than active.

It looks to me like everything Serenity has offered, every fix or improvement
they've made available, has been obtained from IBM, or facilitated by IBM.
Without those IBM contributions, Serenity amounts to exactly nothing. I don't
quite get the point of eCS. IBM offers a fixpack on Software Choice for MCP
(Convenience Packages), and a week later Serenity offers the same thing to its
customers. What are they providing that you can't get direct from IBM? Plus
there's all the testcase stuff -- if you're alert, you can grab packages that
are really intended only for OS/2 server (for example). And I keep up-to-date!
My whole system is dated October 2002.

What IS the point, anyway? I would love to know.

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Robert Holmgren
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