SOUTH AFRICAN REPORT


by Francois van der Merwe
Cape Town, South Africa
Tel: +27 (0)82 556 9467
fmec@iafrica.com

Hi there all you OS/2 fanatics. Yip, it's the nut on the southern tip of Africa again. I hope you all had a good OS/2 month!

Cape Town lost the Olympic games for 2004 (add tears here). But we still win with OS/2! So it is not that bad...

Interesting thing I've picked up the last two months is that I get more and more requests regarding JAVA and OS/2, and a big proportion of these requests are from ISVs and VARs. I think this is something to keep your eye on.

I've heard a birdie saying that the South African postal services decided to install OS/2 in all their branches throughout the country. Can anybody confirm that? In the big organizations, OS/2 business are doing good as usual.

Download OS/2 apps. I must say in my opinion the best place these days to get OS/2 software is http://www.tucows.com. There is lots of stuff. You can also subscribe to their weekly e-mail and that will tell you all about the latest OS/2 utilities, upgrades etc. Very good.

Thanks also to Anthony for standing in for me for last month. I think he is welcome to post something every month! Very good reading.

Have fun.

Please do not hesitate to send me any news and information pertaining to South Africa you would like mentioned in this column.


Francois van der Merwe was the South African Country Coordinator for the "Connect the World with Merlin" project. He is also an active member of the OS/2 Users Group in Cape Town and Team OS/2.