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From: verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: rpc protocols
Keywords: rpc,protocols,rpc/xdr,asn.1,apollo
Message-ID: <830@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 19 Sep 89 13:01:11 GMT
References: <251049BF.4D2B@marob.masa.com> <12714@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM> <45b7d053.1d6d5@apollo.HP.COM>
Organization: Ohio State University, Physics Department
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In article <5177@merlin.usc.edu> posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc was a 
a Sun press release about a project between themselves, Netwise and Novell
to create a common RPC.  [FYI: Novell uses Netwise RPC in their products.]
The bottom line is that Netwise will do it's next RPC release on top of
an enhanced version of Sun's RPC and XDR.  This new release of Netwise RPC
will run on top of the AT&T TLI.

According the the press release this technology was endorsed by
Ashton-Tate, AST Research, Automated Design, Banyan, CMC, DAZIX,
Informix, Interactive Systems, Lotus Development, Oracle, Microrim,
Relational Technologies, Sybase, 3Com and Unify. 

BTW: Novell does seem to be dominant in the PC marketplace.  The press
release from Sun said that Novell has more than four million PC nodes.
I also note that Banyan (one of Novell's prime competitors in the PC
server market seems to also support this RPC). 
-- 
Mark A. Verber
System Programmer, Physics Department, Ohio State University
verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
(614) 292-8002