Establishing OS/2 as the dominant workstation standard
Date: March 1989
: Nearly four years have elapsed since the initiation of our Joint Development Agreement ..
: It is critical that we develop and articulate a strategy to establish OS/2 as the dominant workstation standard. We must communicate a single message to our respective organizations, independent software developers and customers ..
: We should be working together in five areas of systems software:
: Packaging
: We must restructure our systems software offerings so as the customer can purchase only the components appropriate to his needs ..
: It is our proposal that we pursue the oppurtunities for OS/2 and DOS as follows.
: Standard Edition: .. The contents of the base SKU should be limited to the needs of the standalone user ..
: Development:
: Joint work on kernel and presentation manager Microsoft responsible for peer-to-peer OS/2 (and DOS) networking (IBM responsible for wide-area/heterogeneous connectivity - see below)
: Business:
: Two way royalty for base SKUs Royalty to Microsoft for networking
: Database Communications and Workgroup Services
: Microsoft believes that IBM should repackage the components of Extended Edition, and offer them desperately from the base operating system. Microsoft believes the separate offerings should be: {| | - A Database (SQL) server package for OS/2 servers |- | - a Communications package (key SAA and OSI protocols and interfaces) for OS/2 servers |- | - a Communications package for OS/2 workstations |- | - a Mail Store and Forward package for OS/2 servers |}
: Microsoft believes that IBM should separate out the "front-end" or "tools" pieces of Extended Edition into one or more separate offerings. and offer them separately from the above offerings. Microsoft would not license these front-end pieces ...
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March 17, 1989: Nearly four years have elapsed since the initiation of our Joint Development Agreement ..
: It is critical that we develop and articulate a strategy to establish OS/2 as the dominant workstation standard. We must communicate a single message to our respective organizations, independent software developers and customers ..
: We should be working together in five areas of systems software:
| 1. Standard Edition and Networking |
| 2. Database, Communications and Workgroup Services |
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| 3. Portable OS/2 |
| 4. DOS and Windows |
| 5. Tools and Languages |
: Packaging
: We must restructure our systems software offerings so as the customer can purchase only the components appropriate to his needs ..
: It is our proposal that we pursue the oppurtunities for OS/2 and DOS as follows.
: Standard Edition: .. The contents of the base SKU should be limited to the needs of the standalone user ..
: Development:
: Joint work on kernel and presentation manager Microsoft responsible for peer-to-peer OS/2 (and DOS) networking (IBM responsible for wide-area/heterogeneous connectivity - see below)
: Business:
: Two way royalty for base SKUs Royalty to Microsoft for networking
: Database Communications and Workgroup Services
: Microsoft believes that IBM should repackage the components of Extended Edition, and offer them desperately from the base operating system. Microsoft believes the separate offerings should be: {| | - A Database (SQL) server package for OS/2 servers |- | - a Communications package (key SAA and OSI protocols and interfaces) for OS/2 servers |- | - a Communications package for OS/2 workstations |- | - a Mail Store and Forward package for OS/2 servers |}
: Microsoft believes that IBM should separate out the "front-end" or "tools" pieces of Extended Edition into one or more separate offerings. and offer them separately from the above offerings. Microsoft would not license these front-end pieces ...