Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!usc!trwind!robert From: robert@trwind.UUCP (Robert W. Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Management interfaces on LANs Message-ID: <599@trwind.UUCP> Date: 13 Nov 89 22:01:22 GMT References: <127669@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: robert@trwind.UUCP (Robert W. Snyder) Organization: TRW Information Networks Div Lines: 24 Robert Snyder >jon@gode.uio.no (Jon Oelnes) wrote: >>Evan Wallace (wallace@cme.nist.gov) writes: >> Interop89 ... I saw demo versions of graphical network management >> tools for TCP/IP networks ... all DEMO versions with no commitment >> to ever make them into products. .. Vendors ... included ... Sun > >Sun announced its product as just that - a shippable product, available >early '90, including pricing information. Almost 20 vendors at the show >also committed to using or working with Sun's product. The version >shown wasn't a demo version, it was real. > As a disinterested third party, I'll add my 2 cents. Suns product is very real, so was DECs, and there were more at the show depending on what you wanted. This was not like 88 where everyone was running demoware. These demos were real product or real product in development. -- Robert Snyder Disclaimer -- nobody claims dis, but me TRW Information Networks Division 23800 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance CA 90505 USENET: trwind!robert INTERNET: robert@trwind.TRW.COM Phone 213-373-9161