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DEM-01 : DFSee How-To And Demonstration

Topic Description

  • DFSee partitioning, including LVM issues
  • Imaging and cloning using DFSee
  • Data recovery with DFSee, UNDELETE and UNFDISK
  • Some DFSee architecture and working details
  • Questions and Answers...

Schedule

  • Saturday, October 18, 2003
  • 01:30 PM
  • Sierra Ballroom

Speaker Info

  • Jan van Wijk is a software engineer with many years of system programing experience, mainly in 'C'. He also has a lot of experience in automated system rollout in large organizations. DFSee started as a little tool to fill in some gaps for OS/2 system rollout, and has grown into a generic disk utility over the years. He founded Fsys Software a few years back to continue development of DFSee and similar products and offer consultancy on data recovery and system rollout.

DEM-02 : Stalker Software - CommuniGate Pro Messaging Server

Topic Description

  • CommuniGate Pro v4.1 with Groupware - Transforming Enterprise E-mail and Calendaring

    Traditionally, corporations have had to settle for complex, high-maintenance messaging solutions in order to have groupware functionality. Now Stalker Software offers enterprises worldwide another option: support for e-mail, shared folders, calendaring and group scheduling, with the robust and secure CommuniGate Pro messaging solution.

    • Brief Company Overview
    • CommuniGate Pro Solution Overview
    • Replacing Exchange Servers
    • Gaining Platform Independence
    • Enabling Outlook in 'Workgroup' mode
    • Web-based Access to E-mail, Calendar, and Contact folders
    • Benefits for IT Staff
    • Cost Comparison
    • CommuniGate Pro Product Demo
    • Questions & Answers

Schedule

  • Saturday, October 18, 2003
  • 04:30 PM
  • Sierra Ballroom

Speaker Info

  • Phillip Slater joined Stalker Software in 1996. Slater functions as the liaison between the customers and the company's development and support teams. Slater leads solution specification and presentations for prospective clients, and plays a key role in ensuring successful client implementations and outstanding customer support.

    Prior to joining Stalker Software, Slater spent eithe years managing e-mail solutions for the US military. He brings to the company software expertise and a deep understanding of network infrastructure.

DEM-03 : Innotek Products

Topic Description

  • OS/2 Kit for Acrobat Reader

    Adobe's PDF documents are the de-facto standard for electronic documents and every business is using PDF. We deliver Acrobat Reader 4.05 on OS/2 which allows customers to view and print current documents. The old Acrobat Reader 3.0 for OS/2 is not able to view most of the current documents. We are able to also support more recent versions of Acrobat Reader (such as 6.0) but we chose to not deliver this until we have customer demand as very few documents are incompatible with 4.05 and the more recent versions have much higher hardware requirements. Note that our Acrobat Reader is orders of magnitudes faster than the Acrobat Reader 3.0 for OS/2 and we provide full support for IBM Web Browser without the many problems and restrictions of the old viewer.

  • InnoTek Font Engine for OS/2

    A common complaint from customers about web browsing on OS/2 has been the incredibly poor font rendering quality, i.e. legibility. We have implemented a modern font engine for OS/2 making use of advanced techniques such as anti-aliasing ("smoothing") and overcoming the typical restrictions of the OS/2 default font engine (distortion, jiggling characters, missing Unicode support, etc.). InnoTek's Font Engine for OS/2 currently is an add-on for IBM Web Browser for OS/2. Customer feedback has been incredibly positive so far and it is a big gain in use friendliness, esp. when working a lot with web browsers.

Schedule

  • Sunday, October 19, 2003
  • 09:00 AM
  • Sierra Ballroom

Speaker Info

  • Oliver Stein has over 10 years of OS/2 experience. Since 1992, he has held various positions in technical marketing and support in IBM Germany's software group. During this time he managed the relationship with independent hardware vendors who developed OS/2 device drivers. From 1999-2001 he was the technical lead for server managed client solutions in IBM Global Services, Germany. Since 2002 he is responsible for worldwide sales at InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, a german software and consulting company.

DEM-04 : Innotek Development Kits

Topic Description

  • OS/2 Kit for Java

    InnoTek has signed a license contract with Sun Microsystems to create a product allowing customers to deploy the latest Java 1.4.2 technology on OS/2. It has been designed as a cost-effective, fully compliant solution delivering the most widely used Java environment on OS/2. It also includes full support for the Java Plug-in with IBM Web Browser for OS/2 and Mozilla. Performance has shown to exceed IBM Java 1.3.1 and competing 1.4.x ports to OS/2 significantly and for most operations is identical or very close to the Windows platform. We are able to maintain this product with very little efforts (i.e. deliver current Java technology) and we can guarantee identical behavior between the OS/2 Kit and Sun Java for Windows and also implement OS/2 specific fixes/changes. According to customer feedback, our Java implementation for OS/2 is extremely functional, solid, resource effective and tuned. We can keep it on the latest Java level and provide full support for it at fractions of the cost for what it would take IBM or another vendor to support a JVM on OS/2.

  • GCC for OS/2 (C/C++ Compiler Suite)

    We are officially maintaining the OS/2 version of the GNU C/C++ compiler suite. The reason for this is that IBM has withdrawn all C/C++ compiler environments for OS/2 and the last versions are very much outdated by now and there is no support available. InnoTek does require current C/C++ technology on OS/2 for some time and there are other companies requiring this, too. The best example might be IBM Web Browser for OS/2 which is going to use the GCC compiler in the future as well. We are delivering a fully supported environment that can replace IBM VisualAge C++. We have also done special work to remove the requirement for any GPL licensed subcomponents. We plan to keep this compiler current for some years and offer defect support for 3rd parties.

Schedule

  • Sunday, October 19, 2003
  • 10:30 AM
  • Sierra Ballroom

Speaker Info

  • Oliver Stein has over 10 years of OS/2 experience. Since 1992, he has held various positions in technical marketing and support in IBM Germany's software group. During this time he managed the relationship with independent hardware vendors who developed OS/2 device drivers. From 1999-2001 he was the technical lead for server managed client solutions in IBM Global Services, Germany. Since 2002 he is responsible for worldwide sales at InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, a german software and consulting company.

DEM-05 : WarpIN - the Free Installer

Topic Description

  • WarpIn is the freely available, open-source OS/2 installer originally developed by Ulrich Muller. While is has some shortcomings, it is much more powerful that it first appears. This presentation will discuss :

  • how WarpIN works,
  • how to make WarpIn install packages
  • writing the install script
  • writing supplemental Rexx scripts
  • how to get *.wpi files to download reliably
  • bugs and shortcoming in WarpIn to watch out for

Schedule

  • Sunday, October 19, 2003
  • 10:30 AM
  • Sonoma

Speaker Info

  • Doug Clark is a "Jack of Some Trades - master of none" that has been using OS/2 since v 1.3 in 1991 and attending Warpstock since Philly. My OS/2 interests are in ODBC for OS/2, database design, and prompting the short lived IBM VisualAge for C++ version 4.

DEM-06 : Disaster Recovery

Topic Description

  • Data protection for what matters most : An in-depth guide to backing up OS/2 workstations and servers in a cross platform environment.

Schedule

  • Sunday, October 19, 2003
  • 12:30 AM
  • Sonoma

Speaker Info

  • Brent Bowlby is the CEO of Computer Data Strategies, Inc. (CDS), a closely held software development and consulting organization focused on providing data management software and services to the computer industry. Brent has over 15 years experience in the data backup and recovery field, and has been with CDS since it's inception nearly 10 years ago.

DEM-07 : CSSDIR - a powerful directory/file analyzing tool

Topic Description

  • overview: approach and multiple filtering
  • vast user control over which file fields are displayed
  • options and more options plus environment variables
  • searching by filesize, easize, date, multiple wildcards
  • finding duplicate files over multiple drives or network shares
  • finding unique files amongst two or more paths
  • computing crcs including crc's on EAs
  • searching for text strings amongst selected files
  • new sorts, etc over multiple directories/drives
  • excluding files by suffixes, computing crcs
  • programmers filtering of code files by using user defined symbolic codes
  • reading filespecs and excludes from a file
  • multiple sorted reports in one pass
  • baseline snapshots for later comparisons and system differences
  • a new much faster version will be available 4th quarter, 2003
  • attendees of DEMO will receive a discount on CSSDIR

Schedule

  • Saturday, October 18, 2003
  • 04:30 PM
  • Sonoma

Speaker Info

  • Paul Curtis is a software engineer consultant with 20 years experience. His past experiences have focused on real time embedded systems including work on the biggest trucks in the World, Boeing 777, mass transit, telephony, and many other embedded devices doing most of his programming in 'C', and REXX while developing on OS/2 and eCS since 1992. His focus during this past year has been on CSSDIR, a very powerful file systems tool, now available for OS/2 and eCS. You can reach him via http://www.curtisSystemsSoftware.com.

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