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Source: Eugen Kuleshov (eu@uniland.ru)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (editor@os2ezine.com)
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The following message was posted by David Greenstone
(greensto@ca.ibm.com) at IBM Support to a Visual Age for Java
newsgroup recently:

  I am from the Visual Age for Java Service and Support team. I just
  happened to be scanning this newsgroup and I came across this
  thread. I will post this recent append from the beta coordinator
  onto the vajava.beta newsgroup:

    No, we have not planned an OS/2 beta for Version 2, and this is
    not at all due to "IBM's abandoning of OS/2"! I will explain the
    rationale behind this decision. The development effort is
    channeled towards delivering the final product right now, which
    everybody is waiting for. Offering a beta is an activity that
    requires quite some effort, and given the tight schedule, we are
    only able to offer one flavor of the beta, and Windows was
    chosen simply because the majority of the customers that we
    have are using that platform. We simply cannot offer a beta for
    all the platforms and national languages that the VisualAge for
    Java final product will be offered on!

    However, the final product will be delivered at the same time on
    both platforms, and will offer the same level of functionality
    on both platforms. With my apologies, I hope that you can see on
    a Windows box, for now, what you will get on OS/2 very soon.

    Hope this helps.

    Anca Puiu,
    VisualAge for Java
    Beta Program Coordinator


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