IBM Corp yesterday announced from Paris the formation of the IBM Personal Software Products Europe company, based in Basingstoke, Hampshire, which aims to become a premier client-server provider with the responsibility for developing and marketing OS/2, Workplace OS, PC-DOS, speech, pen and multimedia extensions to current operating systems, AIX on Intel Corp iAPX-86, multimedia development tools, local networking products, extended services for OS/2 and object technology. It will also undertake European marketing for DB2 for OS/2, and provide marketing support for other OS/2-related products such as Communications Manager, NetView DM/2 and CICS for OS/2. The new business has been split off from IBM Personal Systems Business Europe, and is claimed to be one of the world’s largest software businesses; operations are currently being formed in individual European countries. Product development will continue to be centered in Boca Raton, Florida and Austin, Texas. Worldwide marketing and brand management will continue to be co-ordinated from Somers, New York.
