4 Million Candles on OS/2 Warp's First Birthday Cake

AUSTIN, Texas, October 11, 1995...Since exploding the hourglass one year
ago today to launch OS/2 Warp with events in New York, London and Sydney,
IBM has chalked up impressive results around the world. Nearly 4 million
copies of OS/2 Warp have been sold in the last year and more than 125
software developers have announced plans to offer new native OS/2
applications, adding to the 2,500 OS/2 applications on the market today.

When OS/2 Warp was announced last year, IBM made a promise to deliver a
family of products based on the OS/2 Warp cornerstone. That promise has
been kept, as IBM has delivered OS/2 Warp for Windows (red spine) and
non-Windows (blue spine) users, OS/2 Warp Connect and its AttachPak for
small workgroups and autonomous departments, the OS/2 Warp Family FunPak
games and entertainment package, the beta version of OS/2 Warp Connect
(PowerPC Edition), the beta version of OS/2 Warp Server, the beta version
of OS/2 Directory and Security Services and the beta version of OS/2 Warp
Entertainment Toolkit for developers.

               More worldwide milestones

Major OS/2 successes worldwide during recent months include:

o September 1995: Banca Commerciale Italiana (Comit) in Italy
  announces the start of its rollout of a leading-edge banking
  information system based on OS/2 to more than 10,000 users;

o September 1995: Sumitomo Bank in Japan purchases 400 OS/2
  licenses to serve their 3,000 desktop clients as part of a
  joint client system integration project with NEC to manage its
  domestic credit online system;

o September 1995: QBE Insurance in Australia, one of the largest
  general insurance companies in the country, announces plans to
  install OS/2 Warp in over 70 branches nationwide;

o September 1995: in the first weeks after it begins selling PCs
  preloaded with Windows95, German PC manufacturer Vobis reports
  50 percent of its sales are of systems preloaded with OS/2
  Warp;

o September 1995: NEC begins preloading its version of OS/2 Warp
  on its PC in Japan;

o September 1995: NationsBank starts second major regional
  development of its Model Banking system, a cross-state
  OS/2-based client/server application. Phase II sees up to 2,500
  OS/2 clients and 400 servers brought online in Florida, joining
  the 1700 clients and 250 servers already in use throughout
  Georgia;

o August 1995: Compaq announces the availability of OS/2 Warp and
  OS/2 LAN Server 4.0 on SmartStart 2.3, the newest version of
  its preloaded tool for integrating and installing server
  software;

o August 1995: Chinese Ministry of Electronics Industry signs a
  Statement to use OS/2 Warp and endorses it as a preferred
  product - the first time China's MEI has endorsed a software
  product;

o June 1995: Data Control Informatica, an educational services
  firm in Brazil, orders 100,000 copies of OS/2 Warp to
  distribute through 47 schools across Brazil for training PC
  users;

o June 1995: Wachovia Corporation, one of North Carolina's
  largest banks, invests $30 million to standardize on an OS/2
  Warp-based retail system network throughout 500 branches;

o May 1995: Japan's telecommunications giant NTT Corporation buys
  20,000 OS/2 licenses and commits to an additional 20,000 to be
  rolled out through 1997.

                      More awards

OS/2 Warp has picked up 23 awards since its release last year, including
InfoWorld Readers' Choice Product of the Year, PC Magazine #1 for User
Satisfaction, PC World Product of the Year, Byte Readers Choice Software
Product of the Year and the just announced Best Operating System of the
Year at the UK Computing Awards for Excellence. In total, OS/2 has won 70
industry awards since December, 1992, including editors choice awards,
user awards and technical awards.

"It's been a great year for Warp," said Dan Lautenbach, IBM vice president,
Personal Software Products division. "Our installed base is growing, with
10 million OS/2 users worldwide, in markets from small office and home
users to large corporations with multiple-processor machines. We have
aggressive plans for OS/2 Warp in 1996 as we continue to enhance this
powerful and robust product family."

IBM news releases are available on the Internet, via the IBM Home Page at
http://www.ibm.com
 
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