ken@pyr.gatech.EDU (Ken Hall) (10/19/89)
We just started using os/2 about a month ago and are running sidekick, ms-word, lan manager, ms c compiler, courier e-mail & oracle on it--so far. We have ordered os/2 upgrades for excel and pagemaker, and look forward to all the other applications which are sure to follow. We really like it. Of course there's a lot to be said against it at this stage, but once we got some applications for it it became a really nice operating system to work with. Lan manager is very nice. I can bring it up in workstation/server mode, connect to any other server on campus, or connect to it from another work station. Plus I can connect to any other printer or communication's port on the network. [FYI, we are using Ungermann-Bass hardware on an ethernet network] For those out there who have TRIED to run Oracle on a DOS platform, os/2 is where Oracle belongs (at least on a PC based machine). The os/2 implimentation of Oracle is very nice. It has a long way to go; for instance, sql-net for lan manager/os/2 has not yet been released. And we are just crossing our fingers that it supports u-b's niu card. But eventually they will. There are more good things I have to say about os/2, except my fingers are getting tired. I will say, however, that we plan to use it extensively within the domain over which our group watches--Business & Finance--when more applications become available. Ken Hall