Press Release

Brunswick, VIC, AUSTRALIA, March 10, 1997 -- To all commercial ISV's - WarpSpeed Computers is offering use of its internet server to provide a single unified site for updates of their products. The offer is open to all commercial ISV's who are shipping OS/2 products. There is no charge for this service.

Updates to products, particularly when dealing with multiple vendors, can often be tedious and very time consuming to find and install. WarpSpeed Computers is offering its internet server as a holding site for updates. The updates will be made available via four different methods. Gopher and FTP will be provided for those users who prefer a standard gopher or FTP interface. Also provided is a modified gopher server which is needed for the "Retrieve Software Updates" program that was supplied with OS/2 Warp 3.

Support for the newer web based "Retrieve Software Updates" (RSU) program is also provided. IBM is using the RSU method for the distribution of its own CSD's and other updates. Using the RSU method, the user clicks on a link to a small RSU file. This RSU file is recognised by a suitably modified web browser (IBM provides an update program for Netscape and Web Explorer users), downloaded and passed onto the RSUINST.EXE program. The RSUINST program downloads the real updates and then runs an install program.

WarpSpeed Computers will provide documentation and support to those ISV's that require it.

"The real aim of this offering is to make it is easier on the users. Nothing else." says Director and CEO Chris Graham. "We have seen an obvious need in the market and we have supplied a solution to it. The concept was mentioned to the editors of some eZines and they thought that OS/2 users sorely needed such a service, so we just set out and did it. We use it for our own products and it works well. Why shouldn't we offer it to others?"

WarpSpeed Computers Updates page can be accessed at: /updates.htm.

This can only work with the support of other ISV's. We are hoping that all of them will get involved, as no-one looses. Everyone wins, particularly the users. All interested ISV's should email Chris Graham at the above address for further details.

Based in Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, WarpSpeed Computers has been in business since 1988 and is committed to producing high quality, low cost software which meets and exceeds the end user's expectations. The software is fully supported through CompuServe and other electronic means - including our own BBS and Web sites. Phone, fax and mail support are also available. Dealers are situated in Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United States.