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From: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NFS Suppoart in NetWare
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Date: 25 Feb 91 15:54:00 GMT
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brian@dgsi.UUCP (Brian Kelley) writes:
>Would someone at Novell care to explain why this product costs $5000?
>That's a lot of money for what is basically a a big TSR (which also happens
>to be version 1.00000).  The big initial hype of 3.0 was increased 
>connectivity and TCP/IP support.

And to Novell, I offer the following challenge:

Please drop your price on this product.  NFS is a _public domain_
protocol put out by Sun Microsystems.  Sources are available both from
me (in the form of SOS) and from uunet.uu.net.  SOS has been modified,
relatively easily within 2-1/2 weeks of my time, to support many Novell
file authentication features.  It doesn't offer the level of performance
which an NFS TSR running directly on the server offers, but it's my bet
that someone can accomplish this for a whole lot less than five grand.

So, Novell, whadya say?  How about charging the $500 which, say,
Santa Cruz Operation is charging?  Or even, shudder, the $0 which Sun
charges (i.e., throw it in with your TCP/IP product)?

-rich


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