BRAZIL REPORT


by Daniel Jorge Caetano
São Paulo, Brazil
dcaetano@sti.com.br
OS/2 Warp News Service Brasil

Portuguese Version

One more month...

For those that follow the news from here, in Brazil, I'll not say anything new... The market is cold. IBM does not worry about us, even after the contract with Banco do Brasil, what had filled us with hope, but I don't think this will change the way "Big Blue" see us.

All right, OS/2 CONNECT did not give me this space so I can cry about IBM, but to talk about what is happening here, on Vera-Cruz land... Let's go to the news!

News About OS/2 Brasil

The OS/2 Brasil site has, as always, a lot of activity, but I think many more people should visit this nice place! Let's go, people! There is important information on OS/2 for everyone... No one knows everything!

OS/2 Brasil now has a page with the mail list about OS/2 (guos2br-l), and has a direct link with OS/2 Voice mailing lists also. This is great for those who always want the latest information about OS/2.

And more, OS/2 Brasil now has a new service, a Programmers Session, with links and some informations about books for those people that want to learn this kind "art".

Changes on OS/2 Warp News Service Brasil

Last month I had some personal problems, so the site was a little out-of-date, but now, OS/2 Warp News Service Brasil is already up-to-date, with a new view and a new way to display the news.

But, as I said before, the news is actually slow, and there is almost nothing to write about... We are waiting for warm news from the Win32-OS/2 project.

Brazilian News About Sobre OS/2

At first, this month I'd like to give my congratulations for Ivan F. Martinez, for his frequent contributions with the OS/2 World. He is the sponsor of OS/2 Brasil and often re-builds programs that come from Unix, converting them to OS/2, as he did (and does) with WGET that month by month wins a new version thanks to him. This month he made the Wget 1.5 beta 13, in the sequence of the last month's beta 9.

Talking again about VoiceType, I was very upset with IBM when I discovered that they discontinued the project but, for the Chinese market, they are developing a new version of the product. This is the big question I would like to ask, "If the Chinese people can have it, why can't we, the Brazilian people, have it? Even if the software core isn't updated, we would like to have the data base with the "Brazilian Portuguese" language for the program!

Good Brazilian Page To Visit...

Again, I'm compelled to mention Macarlo's Site! This page has everything an OS/2 user must know, and a total redesign makes it very easy to navigate, with more and more news, and now... Now is a Sun Certificated site! Yes! You are not crazy. After a good work with the Java Sun Navigator (HotJava) Sun Microsystems finaly saw our friend's site!

Suggestions, News, Everything You Want To Say!

Please, if you have any comments to this page, send me by e-mail!

- Daniel Jorge Caetano

Daniel Jorge Caetano is a student of Civil Engeneering at the Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP). He has nine years of extensive experience in the use of OS/2. He is member of the Student's Association on the University, and writes the "computers" section of the Association Publication. Daniel has solid knowledge in C programming and lots of knowledge on "the way that the operating systems works." He was a member of the "former" Sao Paulo OS/2 User Group, Brazil. He supported OS/2, for a period of time, on STI BBS, the 2nd largest BBS/Internet Provider in Brazil, and actually is "reformulating" the OS/2 Section on that BBS and creating an FTP on that provider, as well as doing an Internet Access Kit for OS/2 to be included on the CD distributed for the provider's users.