New eCo Labs offerings

2005-06-25 14:05:46 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The eCo Labs project is intended to attract new developers to eComStation software development. "Young" developers are working together with the specialists of eCo Software and this gives maximum productivity.

Current offerings:

• JUne extensions;
• MP3 I/O Procedure will allow play/record MP3 in every application;
• Reviews "Maintenance of eComStation by thirdparty staff", "WPPerson technology", "Security/2 technology" will demonstrate the power of eComStation.
• Sync module between WPPerson and mobile phones.

Quantity of software developers on eComStation market

2005-06-24 14:35:09 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The first results of collected information:

• There are more than 20 companies working on eComStation and OS/2 market;
• There are 8 original solutions based on eComStation (information about russian market only; european and american companies fear to publish advertisement information); The platform is used in 9 areas of science and industry;
• Read about perspectives on new markets;

This is preliminary information. Wait for the next report in july.

The second international conference "OS/2 and modern IT conference"

2005-06-11 19:27:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Stanley]

The conferece will occur in Russia, "Maple mountain" sanatorium, 16.-18. September 2004.

Read more at the homepage of the conference (russian language).

The program of the previous (2004) year was:

• Stanislav Radchenko (the history of OS/2; OS/2-solution to automize small trade company; automation of treatment quality examination, forecasting and learning);
• Victor Smirnoff -- DCPack (clipboard convertion tool; for users and developers);
• Vadym Rumyantsev -- usage of OS/2 in space branch and as base for mainframe's command set emulator;
• Evgeny Kotsuba -- OS/2 in laser industry (cutting; stereolitography), MesaGL/2 library (OpenGL);
• Oleg Stolyarov -- Current IBM technologies;
• Eugene Kazarinov -- OS/2 technologies in billing system used by famous moscow internet provider;
• Sergey Posohov -- OS/2 as a tool to control/edit popular business directory "Moscow Business Telephone Guide";
• Joseph Jhrago -- OS/2 in oil industry; XObject WPS-class;
• Vladimir Natrov -- processing of telemetric information in power system of Volgograd region;
• V.N.Novoseltsev (member of the Russian Academy of Science) -- Trade-offs, senescence and premature deaths in drosophila.
• Oleg Pianykh -- servers of storage, transfer and processing of medical diagnosis images;
• Eugene Gorbunoff -- eComStation/Rus 1.2, SVISTA/2 2004 virtual machine;
• Social events: grassy tea, koumiss (fermented mare`s milk), "Green key" spring, shashlik (mutton grilled on a spit);

Updating information about solutions

2005-06-10 18:19:42 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We invite developers of solutions update overviews of their solutions, and send us new flyers.

Users have initiated collection of information about companies working on eComStation market (send us info about companies active in 2005; list of software, kind of activity, rewards, year of coming to the market, homepage, etc).

Join the discussion about future of eComStation and areas of its usage. Find partners for new business if you have fresh idea!

Send us addons and remarks via web-form.

New Rexx Book

2005-06-08 20:57:14 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]

The first new Rexx book from a major publisher in ten years has been released by Wiley/Wrox. The REXX PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE (by Howard Fosdick) covers all aspects of Rexx, its tools, and interfaces in its 686 pages. With a foreword by Michael Cowlishaw

The softcover book is available for under $25 from B&N Online.

Rexx is a key technology of eComStation. Some interesting references:

• Rexx: Power Through Simplicity (english)
• Free Rexx Runs Everywhere (english)
• REXX - the potential of OS/2 platform (russian)

eComStation perspectives

2005-06-06 15:23:41 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

There are two interesting articles on our site:

• A vision for eComStation - Kiosk -- Nick Morrow offers occupy the market of "Kiosks" (english text)
• eCo Software vista - Yuri Prokushev -- new projects of eCo Software, strategy for future (russian text).

VOICE Newsletter 06/2005 available

2005-06-06 14:54:09 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Christian Hennecke]

The June issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now available online.

In the latest issue you find:

• How do you get blood from a stone? -- by Mark Dodel
• The OS/2 and eComStation Developer Workshop 2005 in Dresden -- by Robert Henschel
• Scanner use in OS/2 and XFree86 -- by Bryann Melvin
• OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 update -- by Keith Merrington
• DrDialog, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love REXX - Part 14 -- by Thomas Klein
• And of course letters, addenda, tips, and the compiled news of the previous month!

Articles and news in the Internet

2005-06-02 00:01:49 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Some interesting urls:

• Discussion of REXX (russian language)
• How Germans write much better code than IBM (english)
• Discussion of Open Source OS/2 (russian)
• ..one more discussion of the petition (russian)
• A vision for eComStation - Kiosk (english)

Send us interesting references to articles about eComStation and its technologies!

REXX is always with you

2005-05-28 23:26:09 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [O'Reilly's ONLamp]

Do you know, Which scripting language ...

• Runs on virtually all platforms and operating systems?
• Enjoys a strong standard to which all implementations adhere?
• Comes in object-oriented versions that are upwardly compatible with the standard procedural language?
• Is known for combining ease of use with power?

Rexx is the answer. Rexx was the first widely used scripting language. Though IBM invented it 25 years ago, it may come as a surprise that this language is more popular today than ever.

Check yourself, do you need REXX? Rexx automates the data definition and typing tasks that other languages require of developers. Like Tcl/Tk, Rexx variables are all variable-length character strings. You can use string values that represent numbers in calculations; the others are simply strings (character, bit, or hex) that allow string manipulations but cannot participate in calculations. Rexx transparently converts data between "types" as needed. For consistent computational results across platforms, Rexx employs decimal rather than binary arithmetic.

Details:

• O'Reilly's ONLamp (english)
• OSNews.com (english)
• www.eComStation.Ru (russian)

Conferences in 2005

2005-05-26 13:10:15 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]

Welcome to eComStation and OS/2 conferences:

• Warpstock Czech (15. 7. to 17. 7. 2005) -- Czech, Liberec city, northern Bohemia; Place of the meeting is campus of Technical university of Liberec.
• Warpstock 2005 (Oct. 6-9, 2005) -- Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA; Wyndham Harrisburg-Hershey Hotel.
• Warpstock Europe 2005 (November 18th to 20th, 2005) -- Dresden, Germany. Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW).

New offerings of eCo Labs

2005-05-23 16:17:40 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Labs have executed 6 projects already.

We invite russian developers and users participate in new projects:

• Overview: "New technology of eComStation TNG - Security/2"
• PM-application to control computer hardware;

Closing year 2004

2005-05-17 11:25:56 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, news]

eCo Software company successfully finished the year 2004:

• taxes was paid;
• license payments was paid off;
• all developers got new projects;
• wait for updated software;

We are going to publish the interviews with eCo Software developers about current projects and eComStation perspectives.

Week of laser printers

2005-05-17 09:48:55 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

The twentieth week of 2005 is dedicated to collection of info about compatible/non-compatible laser printers. Our database contains 34 records only... Major part of the models are not produced anymore. Post new reports using the web-form.

Attention! The developers of solutions are interested to know the list of unsupported devices.

Moreover, we invite you send us logs of eCS installer. If sound/network card was not detected by the eCS 1.2 installer, then send instlog.zip file (\var\log) to support (at) ecomstation.com

P.S. The full list of officially supported printers contains more that 1200 models (IBM Printer Pak).

Free Pascal Compiler 2.0.0 released

2005-05-17 09:30:19 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, Yuri Prokushev]

Free Pascal Compiler 2.0.0 is officially released (after 5 years of development). Free Pascal for OS/2 and eComStation is available and includes support of MMOS/2, FTPAPI, REXX and other services.

The operating system eComStation, a bird's-eye view

2005-05-06 12:23:25 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Here is the russian translation of the famous overview (Part 1). You can read original text in PDF format.

Help us to distribute the links to this overview in the Internet.

New offerings of eCo Labs

2005-05-04 16:59:39 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Labs have executed 6 projects already (PNG I/O procedure, JUne, support of Mediaforte RadioXTreme USB Radio, firewall ports setup for eComStation, Overview of OpenOffice.org 1.1.x, WPPerson WPS-class to keep data about friends on Desktop).

We invite russian developers and users participate in new projects:

• Overview: "Industrial maintenance of eComStation"
• Addon for JUne