The OS/2 Guy wrote:
> With the announcement of 'automatic renewal of Passport Advantage
> accounts", IBM has effectively killed off eComStation in anticipation
> of the ending of the OS/2 OEM contract with Managed Systems aka
> the fake "Serenity Systems of Texas".
>
> What IBM has done with this policy change is to assure OS/2 users
> they will continue to automatically receive updates, new enhancements,
> bug fixes, new drivers, new software, new Java releases for many
> years to come.
>
> eComStation Lusers who invested in the folly product are now stuck
> with a dead product and will have to start 'from scratch' with IBM to
> return to the OS/2 fold. Those *real* OS/2 users who were wise enough
> to roll their Software Choice subscriptions over to Passport Advantage
> will continue to see OS/2 supported for many years to come.
>
> IBM has made this policy change to reach out to eComStation
> Lusers who will no longer have access to OS/2 after January 1,
> 2006 (just nine months away) when the OS/2 OEM contract
> between IBM and Managed Systems (aka the fake Serenity
> Systems of Texas) is completed.
>
> Thank you IBM for your continued support of us "little guys"
> who love our OS/2 operating systems.

Until the OEM contract is ended by IBM, eCS users have access to all
updates, without additional, extra or yearly charge. Any eCS user would
financially be better off to get the updates from SSI (for free), as
long as the OEM contract is valid, instead of stepping into PA now
(costs if you have a warp4 license: over $200 for reinstatement, then
over $70 yearly; warp4 license: over $300).

And, since the end of the OEM contract has only been announced by TM, I
won't hold my breath on that...

For those that do step into PA, be warned that it will be renewed yearly
automatically from now, but IBM still plans to provide support through
31 December 2006 for PA customers, so hold your eye on
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/warp/strategy/ and, if nothing
changes, deactivate your PA before you'll end up receiving nothing for
the yearly billed subscription.

As an eCS users I had to pay for access to 'all updates' so lying to
the reader or potential customer is harmful to eCS. The PA
subscription is actually better because IBM is telling us all that they
will support OS/2 for many years to come. I renewed my PA a few months
ago because I couldn't get the updates from Serenity when IBM released
them.

Your 'strategy' claim is blown out of the water now that IBM is making
PA accounts renewable automatically. IBM's a respectable company and
this new announcement is assurance of their continued future support.

I don't know what I'll do with eCS at the end of this year but I've
still got OS/2 and my PA is current.

OS/2 Man

Tim/Nick/Ron/Jeff/Larry/Susan/Meng/whoever wrote:
> As an eCS user

Number of people fooled: 0

Sorry Tim/Nick/Ron/Jeff/Larry/Susan/Meng/whoever. Try again. Better
yet, don't.

--
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The only people being fooled here are those you keep trying to keep
from learning the truth. IBM's decision to not renew the contract with
Serenity means the end of OS/2 in eComstation. We eCS users will have
to depend on those who have Passport Advantage accounts and are willing
to let us steal their offerings. Others will have to steal the updates
using peer to peer applications. They will never really belong to us
as long as we use eCS.

I guess what it means most of all is that those who bought eCS will
walk away from OS/2 altogether.

OS/2 Man

Tim/Nick/Ron/Jeff/Larry/Susan/Meng/whoever wrote:
> The only people being fooled here

Nobody is being fooled here. Your idiocy isn't even convincing enough
to fool yourself, because if you believed any of what you wrote, you'd
have no reason to harp on about it and constantly SPAM the newsgroups.

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Again, you are attempting to fool people with your lies Marty. You
have avoided the truth with every response you have written.

Does Serenity provide IBM's OS/2 updates on the day of release to IBM's
OS/2 customers or does Serenity have a problem with lag time of weeks,
oftentimes months? I've presented the examples: SS/2 v1.7.1, IBM Web
Browser, IBM's latest Java release, IBM's latest USB drivers. Always
late, never available when announced.

You keep lying to people and avoiding the question. You are the fool
Marty.

OS/2 Man

The OS/2 Guy wrote:
> With the announcement of 'automatic renewal of Passport Advantage
> accounts",

So far, I haven't seen anything which indicates this policy has anything
to do with OS/2, eComStation, or any other product. So, why the frenzy?

I see no change to the IBM strategy document regading OS/2.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/warp/strategy/

Specifically, quoting from the document: "through 31 December 2006 for
Passport Advantage customers with active Software Maintenance". So,
according to IBM .. support for PA users ends 31 December 2006 .. which
is the same message IBM has been providing publicly since May 2000 and
earlier than that with disclosures in place.

Short story .. I just don't see where anything changed. But I have a
theory on why the frenzy from "Tim", ed, and other sock puppets. There
is likely some good news coming for eComStation users, so the frenzy is
pre-emptive obfuscation. Folks who have been around for awhile have seen
this before.

Regards,
Bob St.John
Serenity Systems Internationalthrough 31 December 2006 for Passport
Advantage customers with active Software Maintenance

Bob StJohn wrote:
> The OS/2 Guy wrote:
>
>> With the announcement of 'automatic renewal of Passport Advantage
>> accounts",
>
> So far, I haven't seen anything which indicates this policy has anything
> to do with OS/2, eComStation, or any other product. So, why the frenzy?

Let's face it, you can't afford to admit this new IBM PA Renewal policy
is of any value to the OS/2 user. In America, where you can't sell eCS,
there are consumer protection laws. You cannot offer a service, in this
case an "OS/2 Maintenance Contract" that provides no maintenance.
Nor can you offer to renew such a contract if said contract's services
are non-existent. You know this quite thoroughly which is why you
have been forced to sell eCS outside the U.S. borders clear over
in "The Netherlands" where your only distributor resides. That distributor
can sell and steal without fear of U.S. consumer protection laws.

That same distributor was rebuked by the European Consumers
Union and threatened with closure if they continued to falsely
advertise eComStation as "Warp 5". Or do you conveniently
forget that ever happened?

--
Tim Martin, The Official and Only OS/2 Guy
Warp City Web Site - http://www.warpcity.com
email: OS2Guy@Gmail.com OR eCSGuy@Gmail.com

Marty wrote:
> Tim/Nick/Ron/Jeff/Larry/Susan/Meng/whoever wrote:
>
>> As an eCS user
>
>
> Number of people fooled: 0
>
> Sorry Tim/Nick/Ron/Jeff/Larry/Susan/Meng/whoever. Try again. Better
> yet, don't.
>

Umm... better try again. I post out of AT&T. Your eCS Luser
is posting out of NetZero. File an abuse complaint with NetZero
and shut the guy down. You'll be saving us both the headache
of dealing with him.

--
Tim Martin, The Official and Only OS/2 Guy
Warp City Web Site - http://www.warpcity.com
email: OS2Guy@Gmail.com OR eCSGuy@Gmail.com

OS/2 Man wrote:
> I don't know why you lie like this. USB drivers were not available at
> the Serenity web site within the day. I was there every day for a week
> and they weren't there. And now you say they weren't there because
> they had to test them with eCS? Why would they have to do that and why
> don't they do that before they are released? IBM sends me an email
> announcement of upcoming releases and Serenity should receive the same
> thing. Why do we eCS users have to wait months and months before we
> can ever get them? Is that just another 'no-brainer'?
>
> We just can't rely on Serenity to be there for us. We invest in them
> and they let us down. I'm lucky to have my PA account because I was
> able to get the USB drivers the day they were released, not weeks
> later.
>
> OS/2 Man

Dear God Man, give up on eCS and sell it off to some schlep stupid
enough to take it off your hands. You've got your PA access and
that's all you need to keep current with OS/2. That won't happen
with eCS - ever!
--
Tim Martin, The Official and Only OS/2 Guy
Warp City Web Site - http://www.warpcity.com
email: OS2Guy@Gmail.com OR eCSGuy@Gmail.com

Well Tim as you are "Tim Martin, The Official and Only OS/2 Guy" you
must have the ear of the big-wigs at IBM and so have access to
information denied us lesser mortals.

So can you give a solemn undertaking or promise to stop your tirade
against eCS if IBM does not terminate the OEM contract?

A simple yes or no is sufficient to answer this.

Regards

Dennis.


The OS/2 Guy wrote:
> With the announcement of 'automatic renewal of Passport Advantage
> accounts", IBM has effectively killed off eComStation in anticipation
> of the ending of the OS/2 OEM contract with Managed Systems aka
> the fake "Serenity Systems of Texas".
>
> What IBM has done with this policy change is to assure OS/2 users
> they will continue to automatically receive updates, new enhancements,
> bug fixes, new drivers, new software, new Java releases for many
> years to come.
>
> eComStation Lusers who invested in the folly product are now stuck
> with a dead product and will have to start 'from scratch' with IBM to
> return to the OS/2 fold. Those *real* OS/2 users who were wise enough
> to roll their Software Choice subscriptions over to Passport Advantage
> will continue to see OS/2 supported for many years to come.
>
> IBM has made this policy change to reach out to eComStation
> Lusers who will no longer have access to OS/2 after January 1,
> 2006 (just nine months away) when the OS/2 OEM contract
> between IBM and Managed Systems (aka the fake Serenity
> Systems of Texas) is completed.
>
> Thank you IBM for your continued support of us "little guys"
> who love our OS/2 operating systems.

Tim/Nick/Ron/Jeff/Larry/Susan/Meng/whoever wrote:
> Marty wrote:
>
>> Tim/Nick/Ron/Jeff/Larry/Susan/Meng/whoever wrote:
>>
>>> As an eCS user
>>
>> Number of people fooled: 0
>>
>> Sorry Tim/Nick/Ron/Jeff/Larry/Susan/Meng/whoever. Try again. Better
>> yet, don't.
>
> Umm... better try again.

No need for either of us to try again.

You lied that the posted drivers and dates from the eCS site weren't the
most current. You aren't fooling anyone. Your idiocy isn't even
convincing enough to fool yourself, because if you believed any of what
you wrote, you'd have no reason to harp on about it and constantly SPAM
the newsgroups.

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Bob StJohn wrote:
> The OS/2 Guy wrote:
>
>> With the announcement of 'automatic renewal of Passport Advantage
>> accounts",
>
> So far, I haven't seen anything which indicates this policy has anything
> to do with OS/2, eComStation, or any other product. So, why the frenzy?
>
> I see no change to the IBM strategy document regading OS/2.
> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/warp/strategy/
>
> Specifically, quoting from the document: "through 31 December 2006 for
> Passport Advantage customers with active Software Maintenance". So,
> according to IBM .. support for PA users ends 31 December 2006 .. which
> is the same message IBM has been providing publicly since May 2000 and
> earlier than that with disclosures in place.
>
> Short story .. I just don't see where anything changed. But I have a
> theory on why the frenzy from "Tim", ed, and other sock puppets. There
> is likely some good news coming for eComStation users, so the frenzy is
> pre-emptive obfuscation. Folks who have been around for awhile have seen
> this before.

Indeed. We saw the same nonsense around the time of every major release
of eCS. If I had to wager a guess, I'd say that you are on the verge of
closing a TCO deal with IBM, where they will continue to maintain a
tailored version of OS/2 for SSI.

--
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The OS/2 Guy wrote:
> OS/2 Man wrote:
>
>> I don't know why you lie like this. USB drivers were not available at
>> the Serenity web site within the day. I was there every day for a week
>> and they weren't there. And now you say they weren't there because
>> they had to test them with eCS? Why would they have to do that and why
>> don't they do that before they are released? IBM sends me an email
>> announcement of upcoming releases and Serenity should receive the same
>> thing. Why do we eCS users have to wait months and months before we
>> can ever get them? Is that just another 'no-brainer'?
>>
>> We just can't rely on Serenity to be there for us. We invest in them
>> and they let us down. I'm lucky to have my PA account because I was
>> able to get the USB drivers the day they were released, not weeks
>> later.
>>
>> OS/2 Man
>
>
> Dear God Man, give up on eCS and sell it off to some schlep stupid
> enough to take it off your hands. You've got your PA access and
> that's all you need to keep current with OS/2. That won't happen
> with eCS - ever!

Well, in fact it's a good idea to keep the eCS, as PA won't cover OS/2
as of 31 december 2006, as stated clearly on
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/warp/strategy/
Nobody (but some fool) has announced that SSI will be gone by then.

In <4222a9f6$0$23564$8b463f8a@news.nationwide.net>, on 02/27/2005
at 11:18 PM, Bob Stjohn said:

>The OS/2 Guy wrote:
>> With the announcement of 'automatic renewal of Passport Advantage
>> accounts",

>So far, I haven't seen anything which indicates this policy has anything
>to do with OS/2, eComStation, or any other product. So, why the frenzy?

>I see no change to the IBM strategy document regading OS/2.
>http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/warp/strategy/

Well there is one new addition; on the website right under the ISV name
SSI, IBM has noted in italics that things are subject to change without
notice.

-->There might be a message in there for you.










>Specifically, quoting from the document: "through 31 December 2006 for
>Passport Advantage customers with active Software Maintenance". So,
>according to IBM .. support for PA users ends 31 December 2006 .. which
>is the same message IBM has been providing publicly since May 2000 and
>earlier than that with disclosures in place.

>Short story .. I just don't see where anything changed. But I have a
>theory on why the frenzy from "Tim", ed, and other sock puppets. There
>is likely some good news coming for eComStation users, so the frenzy is
>pre-emptive obfuscation. Folks who have been around for awhile have seen
>this before.

>Regards,
>Bob St.John
>Serenity Systems Internationalthrough 31 December 2006 for Passport
>Advantage customers with active Software Maintenance

letoured@nospam.net wrote:

>
> Well there is one new addition; on the website right under the ISV name
> SSI, IBM has noted in italics that things are subject to change without
> notice.
>
> -->There might be a message in there for you.

It would appear that you agree, the change in PA has no effect on any
product. As to the disclaimer, don't know why you missed it before. It's
always been there. It is standard disclaimer speak, found all over the
IBM web site, packaging, licenses, and so forth. You'll also find such
disclaimers in technical pubs, including Redbooks.

But ... you care to "google", you'll find that I have often said that
IBM's lack of commitment to OS/2 is the largest sales inhibitor. Vendors
dealing with OS/2, including me, would be delighted if there was a more
positive message coming from IBM. But .. it's not. See the strategy
document.

Regards,
Bob St.John
Serenity Systems International

The OS/2 Guy wrote:
> Bob StJohn wrote:
>
>> The OS/2 Guy wrote:
>>
>>> With the announcement of 'automatic renewal of Passport Advantage
>>> accounts",
>>
>>
>> So far, I haven't seen anything which indicates this policy has
>> anything to do with OS/2, eComStation, or any other product. So, why
>> the frenzy?
>
>
> Let's face it, you can't afford to admit this new IBM PA Renewal policy
> is of any value to the OS/2 user.

Please explain the value the change in auto renewal to PA has to any
product distributed through PA. I won't even limit you to OS/2. While
this may change the terms and conditions regarding PA, it doesn't seem
to effect the terms and conditions of any product offering.

It seems like you and ed are just grabbing at straws .... again.

Regards,
Bob St.John
Serenity Systems International

Bob StJohn wrote:
>
> Please explain

No explanation is needed, the fact that you keep changing
the subject line, keep whining that your product isn't as bad
as they say, refuse to acknowledge your failure as a minor
vendor, and fear of those six eCS Lusers who are apt to
abandon you is explanation enough.
--
Tim Martin, The Official and Only OS/2 Guy
Warp City Web Site - http://www.warpcity.com
email: OS2Guy@Gmail.com OR eCSGuy@Gmail.com

Bob StJohn wrote:
>
> It would appear that you agree, the change in PA has no effect

Coming from a man with a vested interest in a well known "it ain't
selling product I gotta baffle these guys with more baloney"
problematic product, it is obvious PA has made a tremendous
effect on your six eCS Lusers. Whining, crying, screaming their
heads off at you in the eCS Forums because you conned them.

We told them you would and now it comes to fruition.

--
Tim Martin, The Official and Only OS/2 Guy
Warp City Web Site - http://www.warpcity.com
email: OS2Guy@Gmail.com OR eCSGuy@Gmail.com