EComStation

eComStation
eComStation logo eComStation
eComStation screenshot
DeveloperPayGlobal Technologies BV (Previously Serenity Systems, Mensys BV, XEU.com. Based on code from IBM, Microsoft, and other developers)
OS familyOS/2
Working stateInactive
Source modelClosed source
Initial releaseJuly 2001; 23 years ago (2001-07)[1]
Latest release2.1 / May 20, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-05-20)[2]
Latest preview2.2 Beta II / December 16, 2013; 10 years ago (2013-12-16)[3]
LicenseProprietary software with open-source components
Official websiteecomstation.com

eComStation or eCS is an operating system based on OS/2 Warp for the 32-bit x86 architecture. It was originally developed by Serenity Systems and Mensys BV under license from IBM. It includes additional applications, and support for new hardware which were not present in OS/2 Warp. It is intended to allow OS/2 applications to run on modern hardware, and is used by a number of large organizations for this purpose.[4] By 2014, approximately thirty to forty thousand licenses of eComStation had been sold.[5]

Financial difficulties at Mensys in 2012 led to the development of eComStation stalling, and ownership being transferred to a sister company named XEU.com (now known as PayGlobal Technologies BV),[6] who continue to sell and support the operating system.[5] The lack of a new release since 2011 was one of the motivations for the creation of the ArcaOS OS/2 distribution.[7]

  1. ^ "OS/2, ArcaOS and eComStation Versions and Languages". Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  2. ^ "eComStation 2.1 GA available". ecomstation.com. May 2011. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
  3. ^ eComStation 2.2 beta II now available - December 16, 2013 03:29:15 by Eugene Gorbunoff
  4. ^ "eComStation - runs all your existing IBM OS/2 programs on today's hardware". ecomstation.com. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Warpstock 2014 - The future of eComStation - Menso de Jong". youtube.com. October 19, 2014. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  6. ^ "XEU.com European Software Solutions". XEU.com. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
  7. ^ "About Arca Noae". arcanoae.com. Retrieved September 24, 2020.