through by the company. On April 29, 2000, Serenity itself in conjunction with Kim Cheung of Touchvoice Systems created a discussion group for the purpose of discussing the OS/2 community's interest in a "new Managed Client for eBusiness using components of WSeB" called eComStation to replace the one based on WoD, the idea was brought up to also create a new non-remote boot client — in effect an OEM version of the OS/2 client. Although Serenity's initial response to a suggestion of a thick client was negative, the response was positive enough from the community and from IBM to get things moving, and just a few months later the first eCS preview was shipped. Notwithstanding Cheung's fairly simple initial concept, community input was actively solicited from the beginning, and feature requests quickly began coming in. The final GA release of eComStation 1.0 was not released until July 2001, and was significantly different from the original preview in many respects. Release history Date of last edition taken from the installation CDs, the official release dates may be different. Release dates refer to the US English editions unless otherwise noted. September 29, 2000 - eComStation preview July 10, 2001 - eComStation 1.0 April 18, 2003 - eComStation 1.1 August 12, 2004 - eComStation 1.2 November 4, 2005 - eComStation 1.2R (Media Refresh) June 18, 2007 - eComStation 2.0 RC1 December 25, 2007 - eComStation 2.0 RC4 July 4, 2008 - eComStation 2.0 RC5 December 6, 2008 - eComStation 2.0 RC6 August 11, 2009 - eComStation 2.0 RC7 Silver May 15, 2010 - eComStation 2.0 GA May 7, 2011 - eComStation 2.1 GA February 28, 2013 - eComStation 2.2 Beta Demo CD March 25, 2013 - eComStation 2.2 Beta 1 December 13, 2013 - eComStation 2.2 Beta II Version 1.0 eComStation 1.0 was built on the 2000 release of IBM's Convenience Package for OS/2 Warp version 4 (commonly referred to as MCP or MCP1). Additionally, several commercial applications were bundled with the operating system package, most notably Lotus SmartSuite for OS/2 and IBM Desktop On-Call. The IBM OS/2 install routine was no longer used; instead, a rapid-deployment system based on Cheung's WiseManager product was utilized to install the operating system components. In addition, a number of enhancements to the OS/2 user interface had been integrated, including a revamped desktop layout with entirely new icons, customizable graphic effects in a number of windowing components,