In reply to the blog of Adrian here is a short reply to the blog of Adrian
Gschwend who founded Netlabs.
http://blog.netlabs.org/?p=199
Mensys and Serenity Systems would like to thank Netlabs for the years of
close cooperation and supporting the eComStation project. For years we have
know that the things we can do for eComStation are limited in the sense that
we don't the human and financial resources that IBM invested into
eComStation. Also some technical limitations apply.
At Warpstock 2008 in Dusseldorf I (Roderick Klein) mentioned that after
years there is a sudden spike in the amount of support calls we are getting
from companies. Its primarily from the United States. IBM canceled OS/2
support in United States around 2002/2003. Now 6 years later we are getting
a lot of support calls from companies needing eComStation.
In conjunction with the OS/2 eCS community Mensys/Serenity Systems
continues to invest money in eComStation. As Flash 10 will soon come out in
a public beta. Togheter with other groups we will soon provide via OS/2
VOICE additional funding for CUPS (printer driver support).
Also the DANIS506.ADD driver we will continue to develop it. Right now the
driver supports SATA and PATA controllers. Right now research is being done
by a developer to get AHCI support on eComStation. The follow up of the
SATA standard which is slowly coming in new machines. This will be for the
release of eComStation past eComStation 2.0. There will be a day that OS/2
can no longer run by itself. But so far we also have a demand from some
companies to run OS/2 on native hardware because of certain hardware access
that is needed.
Roderick Klein
Mensys
From: Roderick Klein