According to an article in heise online News [] DR-DOS lebt http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ps-20.11.02-000 DeviceLogics, aktueller Eigentümer von DR-DOS, will im Frühjahr 2003 eine neue Version des Betriebssystems herausbringen.
there may be a new release of DR-DOS in early 2003. There was also a short message in newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp about an update to DR-DOS in early 2003 pointing to more info at http://www.drdos.com and http://www.drdos.org This may not be directly on-topic for Arachne, but the future of DOS is quite relevant.