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From: salzman@NMS.HLS.COM (Mike Salzman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: IBM MVS TCP/IP info wanted
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Date: 26 Sep 90 21:52:55 GMT
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> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> > I happened to do a market survey earlier this year among commercial users
> > of IBM TCP/IP solutions.  They included users of IBMs software as well
> > as third party. 
> 
> is this report general available ? If yes, could you please sent me
> an electronic copy ? Thanks very much !
> 
> Jan
Hi Jan,
	The survey was part of a corporate market research effort,
that we undertook in the area of structured wiring systems.  It happened
that some of the sites which we visited were true "blue" sites, and 
during the conversation with them I asked about the LAN front end
systems that they had.  The survey was not specifically about that
topic, but about their LAN plans.  I became interested in the 
topic also because all the IBM sites indicated a strong interest
in both ethernet and TCP/IP.  Needless to say, I was quite surprised
at these two answers, having expected to hear them say Token Ring
and SNA.

	In any case, our study was for internal consumption, and does
not shed any further light on the question raised in the mailing list
about 8232 alternatives.
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