Jesse Webb is from IBM Boca, and is a marketing honcho of some kind. He was running the OS/2 demo in the demo room, and also did this session (twice) for a crowd of over 200.

I had gone to the demo room specifically to look for OS/2 2.0 beta information. Normally I try to avoid the demo room, because you get accosted by IBM marketing weenies who ask all kinds of nosy questions and attempt to sell you a crock of buzzwords like "enterprise solutions".

So Jesse Webb surprised me. He just stood there and drove the mouse around the OS/2 desktop, and answered questions. The OS/2 he was running had just been issued the week before SHARE (it was beta version 6.304) but it looked like golden code to me. I have seen seamless Windows applications running on the OS/2 desktop, and it works! I saw Excel running next to Word-for-Windows, and next to that was a windowed DOS application (Quattro), and a native OS/2 windowed application of some kind. It was all pretty slick, with decent performance.

Webb mentioned during his demo that he was going to do two sessions later on in the week, and that he would give away a free copy of OS/2 to everyone who came. So I went to his session, didn't learn much that I didn't already know, but did fill out the card for a freebie OS/2. I expect to see it in a couple of weeks.