Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.nfs:1944 comp.windows.ms:10225 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ns-mx!ccad.uiowa.edu!cadsi From: cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies Message-ID: <1991Mar13.131141.6436@ccad.uiowa.edu> Date: 13 Mar 91 13:11:41 GMT References: <1991Mar12.231950.14828@amd.com> Organization: CAD-Research, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Lines: 33 From article <1991Mar12.231950.14828@amd.com>, by phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai): > In article > rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes: > > And to see Sun go around bragging about their great networks > really galls me. Evidently You need to look at The banking and stock business. Sun Dominates these areas. > Of course, all this assumes you are really trying to be competitive in > the PC market, instead of just peddling a cute but only partially > useful hack. The problem is this crippled hack is preventing some users > from running the solution that really meets their needs, because Sun > offers it as a PC network and management believes Sun instead of their > users. hmmm.... Lets play numbers. There are around 50,000,000 PC's out there (numbers from variuos magazines. When I finish +-10,000,000 won't matter much). Assume now that even 0.1% have the desire to do PC to UNIX networking. Now that works out to around 50,000 PC's. 50,000 * $300 = $15,000,000. No real need to be competitive. Just sell a minor percentage. So, since some of the users need just that 'cute but only partially usefull hack', it all makes good sense. Nobody 'forced' anyone to purchase PC-NFS anyway. Matter of fact, I would prefer NOVELL and some of those others, but they don't talk to UNIX (at all, or miserably), even less of a solution to some. Lets not play war here. The idea behind this network mail (not NOVELL by the way) is to locate solutions. There is good and bad in every solution. Tom Hite