DENMARK REPORT


by Kaare Thor Olsen
Odense, Denmark
kaare@nightcall.dk
http://www.nightcall.dk/
http://www.nightcall.dk/english.htm (English version)

THE FUTURE OF TEAM OS/2 IN DENMARK

A debate about the future of Team OS/2 in Denmark has started. Some wants Team OS/2 Denmark to stick to its roots, i.e. stay an informal grass root organization as originally defined by David Whittle, while others wants a more formal organization with rules and membership lists.

Unfortunately, this debate triggered one or more immature persons to start calling Team OS/2 Zealand's coordinator (Eric Johannesen) in the middle of night, telling him to leave Team OS/2 in terms that's not suited for publication. This obviously made Eric Johannesen resign as coordinator and stop participating in Team OS/2 Denmark's echomail conferences on OS2NET. We hope he'll return sometime, but it's very uncertain if he will.

The debate continues but I personally don't really see much point in it any more, when people being unable to express their opinions in writing takes measures as described above.

So far, I've been unable to draw a conclusion from the debate. When, or if, a decision is made you'll read about it here.

TUNNEL/2

On October 1 F/X Communications released Tunnel/2 v1.0, "a two-way, dial-on-demand Virtual Private Network (VPN) over the public Internet." "Tunnel/2 intercepts your TCP/IP traffic then encapsulates, encrypts, and sends it on a normal socket to the other end, where the process is reversed" to quote the documentation. To me it sounds like a great idea for a company that doesn't need its own WAN, but still need to be connected to remote offices.

I haven't the means to try out the program, but anyone who'd like to give it a try may visit F/X Communications' home page at http://www.fx.dk/ and download the shareware version of the program.

That's it for this month. While writing this report I couldn't help thinking about OS/2 CONNECT's former Web master, John Meroth, whom I got to know by mail a few weeks before he suddenly passed away. Rest in peace, John.

Please do not hesitate to send me any Danish specific news and information you would like mentioned in this column.

- Kaare Thor Olsen

Kaare Thor Olsen is a programmer in Odense, Denmark. He has been using OS/2 since version 2.0 and is a member of Team OS/2. He is also the SysOp for the NightCall BBS at +45-63 12 10 74, +45-63 11 10 74, and +45-66 19 30 74.