WarpCharge Information

WarpCharge provides the missing piece in your OS/2 e-commerce solution : the payment system.

When we at Theta Band Software tried to setup our own OS/2 online store, we discovered that the lack of OS/2 payment software made it impossible to complete without additional computers running other operating systems, because the main vendors of credit card processing software, IC Verify and CyberCash, in their infinite arrogance, always refused to support OS/2 as a web server platform for their payment systems.

We could not take "no" as an answer, especially since we knew a lot about the technology involved in doing secure online payments. Rather than switch away from our favorite platform, we decided in mid-1998 to dedicate half of our company resources to the development of a native OS/2 online payment system. This system was initially designed for our own internal use, but it quickly became apparent that it could benefit other companies facing similar problems with online payment on OS/2. We decided to make this a product and called it WarpCharge, an early version of which we demonstrated at Warpstock in October 1998. In May 1999, IBM shipped OS/2 Warp Server for E-business with a strong focus on electronic commerce, and WarpCharge complements it perfectly.