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From: shull@scrolls.wharton.upenn.edu (Christopher E. Shull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: IPT Personal Server vs. other AppleShare Servers
Keywords: Network File Servers, AppleTalk, AppleShare
Message-ID: <27874@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 90 17:35:10 GMT
References: <1990Aug2.085336.24602@athena.mit.edu>
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Reply-To: shull@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Christopher E. Shull)
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In article <1990Aug2.085336.24602@athena.mit.edu> tldavis@athena.mit.edu
(Timothy L. Davis) writes:
>I've been told that the "IPT Personal Server Network" is what I want, at
>around $150.  Is this a good quality, bug-free product?  At a good price?

Well, I can only tell you about our experience over the past two years
with their Apollo-Mac product called uShare.  We bought the product having
seen a demonstration, only to find that the demonstration was "cooked"
and several parts of the product, which the demo whizzed by, didn't really
work.  Furthermore, the new version of the Apollo operating system broke
their software left, right and center, and after much angst, IPT finally
admitted that no one was even working on a fix, but that someone might
get to it eventually.  At this point, we cut our losses.  If they ever
fix it, they can call me -- afterall, I paid for a maintenance contract.

-Chris

Christopher E. Shull                    shull@wharton.upenn.edu
The Wharton School                      University of Pennsylvania
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