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From: mishkin@apollo.HP.COM (Nathaniel Mishkin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: rpc protocols
Keywords: rpc,protocols,rpc/xdr,asn.1,apollo
Message-ID: <45c10b19.1d6d5@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 89 17:11:00 GMT
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Reply-To: mishkin@apollo.com (Nathaniel Mishkin)
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In article <830@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) writes:
>In article <5177@merlin.usc.edu> posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc was a 
>BTW: Novell does seem to be dominant in the PC marketplace.  

No doubt this is true.  And no doubt that Novell has been pushing Netwise
RPC.  It just still isn't clear to me that this means that Netwise RPC
(as opposed the the Novell file system stuff) is being widely used as
well.  Maybe it is, and I just don't know.

>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). 

Curiously, in material that accompanied the press release, a Banyan person
was quoted as saying the Banyan would continue to support and enhance
its own RPC, Net RPC.  Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the
Sun/Netwise/Novell system.  In fact, if you look at the accompanying
material, it's hard to tell whether the quoted supporters are declaiming
support for the Sun/Netwise/Novell troika, or whether they're just saying
"Yes, a standard RPC is good for all" (and under their breaths:  "So
we could do just *one* version of *our* software and so we could keep
out of this battle altogether"?)  But maybe I'm being too cynical about
the kinds of things that come out of (anyone's) marketing organization :-)
-- 
                    -- Nat Mishkin
                       Hewlett Packard Company / Apollo Systems Division
                       mishkin@apollo.com