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Source: Chris Hodgkins (chris@slave.demon.co.uk)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (trevor@haligonian.com)
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Further to an earlier post on Warpcast
(http://www.os2ss.com/warpcast/wc4354.html) here are some more
details with regard to the demise of MainConcept's
(http://www.mainconcept.com/) MainActor Video Sequencer for OS/2,
clipped from an E-mail reply from MainConcept Germany. 

  Here is a short statement regarding our OS/2 involvement.

  The Short Term
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  We are sorry to say that our OS/2 development is on hold. We were
  developing v3 of MainActor/2 for OS/2, however we had that many
  problems with IBMs new VisualAge C++ v4 for OS/2 that we were
  unable to proceed with the development. Working around these
  problems would have meant much, much work for us. Should a new and
  improved version of VisualAge C++ v4 for OS/2 see the light of day
  we will start again on this.

  The Long Term
  -------------

  We are switching compiler and object classes for MainActor. Version
  3 of MainActor is based on IBM VisualAge and OpenClass which gave
  us Windows and (we thought) OS/2 compatibility.

  Future version of MainActor (starting with v3.5) are now based on
  egc / gcc / VisualC as compilers and Qt as object classes. This
  gives us Windows / Unix (Linux) compatibility. egc / gcc are
  available for OS/2, however Qt is not. For more information about
  Qt please have a look at . Should an OS/2
  version of Qt see the light one day, we will surely provide OS/2
  versions again.

  We are very sorry to discard OS/2 in the long term, being OS/2
  users since the first versions of OS/2 were around, however we have
  to think about the future of our company and Linux is a fastly
  growing market which promises to give us some revenue in the future
  (which the OS/2 market is unable to provide currently).

  Thanks for your interest.
 
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