Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!appserv!sun!amdcad!brahms!phil From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: My two cents about the current flame war. Message-ID: <1991Mar18.193312.4383@amd.com> Date: 18 Mar 91 19:33:12 GMT References: Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 20 In article tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) writes: |1) Novell produces network software aimed at pure PC networks, | allowing PC users to share PC resources. | |2) Sun produces network software aimed at mixed Un*x/PC networks, | allowing PC users to share Un*x resources. | |3) This newsgroup is for the discussion of the NFS protocol and | its implementations. In a large company, there will be forces trying to "standardize" on a common solution. If Sun PC-NFS were as good as a real PC network, there would be no problem, but it is not and knowlegeable PC users who don't need to talk to Unix will find Sun's PC-NFS inferior to solutions like Novell. It is my hope that a discussion of the issues involved will help the vendors improve their products. -- The government is not your mother. The government doesn't love you.