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From: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM's plan for OS/2 and you
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Date: 18 Oct 89 15:37:21 GMT
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In article <900@micropen> dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) writes:
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>Reading an month old press release from IBM is the following on their
>visionary product for the office worker of tomorrow:  OfficeVision/2.
>
>Running under OS/2 Extended Edition v1.2 this little gem does mail, 
>address book, rolodex, word processing, and "talks to mainframes".

If I remember properly, the big thing about OfficeVision is supposed to be
that not only does it do all of the aforementioned things, but it conforms
to their SAA architecture so that all versions of OfficeVision, whether you
are running it on a 3090 mainframe or an AS/400 or essentially ANY IBM
platform that all files are interchangeable.  Complaints about IBM have
always been that there was one way to do things on the mainframes, another on
the PC, another on the (fill in the blank) and there was no standardization
between them.  OfficeVision is supposed to eliminate this...
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