Speakers

Jörg Braun is the editor of the Toolbox magazine, co-editor of the Unix Magazine freeX, lead author of the book FreeBSD, and author of the book cdrecord, both published at C&L. He is engaged intensly in working with Linux and BSD since 1997, but he also does not flinch from working with Windows and OS/2, and he has done the main part of the localization work of Lazarus. Furthermore he has...

Ronald Brill's first encounter with OS/2 dates back to 1990. Over the following years, he mostly developed client/server applications with Smalltalk, focussing on communication with IBM hosts and employing DB2 on OS/2 servers. For over 10 years now he has been designing and developing web applications and frameworks with Java. OS/2 usage is restricted to his home PC these days. In the...

Yuri Dario started using OS/2 with 2.0 beta releases. He works as teacher and freelance software developer. He started porting unix software to OS/2 in late 90s on opensource projects like SANE, msql, mysql, and many others. He also worked on commercial software like BlueCAD, Opera, OpenOffice.org.

Sigurd has been using OS/2 (Warp 3) since 1995, the time he bought his first PC (a pre-installed 486 DX2/80 VOBIS PC). Since then he has used this system for private use, while not having any programming skills. Sigurd's goal is to run OS/2 and eComStation natively on modern hardware as long as possible. Therefore, he used the program UpdCD (created by Zsolt Kadar) and created a...

Thorolf started in 1985 with hardware development and assembler programming on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, later on with a Sinclair QL (32-bit). In 1993 he got his first 386-compatible system and got in touch with DOS, Minix, Linux and since 1994/95 (after upgrading his PC to 8MB RAM) with IBM OS/2 Warp 3.He worked several years as a system administrator for OS/2 networks at an IBM subsidiary. By now...

Adrian Gschwend is founder and webmaster of netlabs.org. He works as a Unix and network specialist and teaches network security at Swiss universities and companies.

Detlef Horstmann was born in 1955 in Essen (Germany). After his study of jurisprudence at the Bochum Universiy and his his legal clerkship he worked from 1985 till 1996 as an attorney at law in Essen. From 1996 on he ist partner of the law firm „Rechtsanwälte Lüders in Horstmann“ in Rostock and is specialized in criminal defense and administrative law. He works with Os/2 and eComStation since...

Ernst Martin Kirschner is a long term user of OS/2. He begun with version 3 and is working with computers since 1979. In 1992 he start working as a software developer. He is interested in hard- and software and developed programs for single unit computer and Mainframe computer systems. He he is also interested in applications offside of main interest programs. Today he is employed as a Software...

Roderick Klein has been working at Mensys, the European distributor of eComStation, since 2001. He started using OS/2 when the Warp 3 beta from IBM came out. Working on futher improving the IT infrastructure of Mensys and providing support internally and to customers, he also works on eComStation development, support, research and new projects. He is president and liason officer of VOICE, and...

Christian Langanke has been using OS/2 and eComStation for over fifteen years and since then dealt with topics from installation and software distribution via network integration of OS/2 and eComStation systems and applications up to intra-/internet and host connectivity. He is the author of the well-known Wireless LAN Monitor as well as of many other freeware, which is available on his homepage....

Keith Merrington has been in computing since punched cards were used as input, and computers were made from discrete components. He has worked for various computer companies such as ICL English Electric, Philips Office Computer Systems, and Philips Microprocessors both in the commercial and technical side. He built his first computer soldering the chips in by hand, back in the 80's based on a...

Michael Oehlhof started to use OS/2 with Warp 3 Connect. Since 1999 he is a member of Team OS/2 Ruhr e.V. In 2005 Michael created an installation package for Apache, MySQL, and PHP called AMPOS2 (now AMP4eCS). With this package and some research work he got the Content Management System TYPO3 running on OS2. The project TYPO3 goes eComStation was started together with Roland Schmalenberg, and...

Bart van Leeuwen has been using OS/2 and eComStation for more then 15 years. He worked briefly for IBM and then started his own company. Now Bart van Leeuwen works as a firefighter in Amsterdam and in his spare time contributes a lot to the development and coordination of the development of eComStation.

Jan works on OS/2 since 1988 - he was working at IBM on OS/2 1.0 Extended Edition for a few years. Jan worked on architecture, system integration and OS/2 software development for a large bank. He founded Fsys Software to continue development of the DFSee utility in 2001, developing on OS/2. Jan is working on embedded system development since 2007.

Peter Verweij is using OS/2 since 1994 on different notebooks. He is working as a teacher at the HAN University (in Dutch Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen). Using a notebook with OS/2 on a windows network calls for own solutions and using my own mailserver is one of them.