Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:10271 comp.protocols.nfs:1958
Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!appserv!sun!amdcad!brahms!phil
From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.protocols.novell
Subject: Re: PC-NFS & Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.015126.1156@amd.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 01:51:26 GMT
References: <1991Mar12.231950.14828@amd.com> <1991Mar13.131141.6436@ccad.uiowa.edu> <_Z$=48C@rpi.edu>
Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA
Lines: 37

In article <_Z$=48C@rpi.edu> barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) writes:
|Novell, as a proprietary solution not addressing the full breadth of

Proprietary is a content-free word used by people who have already
made up their mind about what they want, in order to dismiss something
which they have no rational reason for rejecting.

How does Novell compare to NFS?

The Novell protocol was invented by Novell. NFS was invented by Sun.
NFS has a large market share in the Unix world. Novell has a
large market share in the PC world. If you want to run Novell on
your PC you have to pay for it. If you want to run NFS on your PC
you have to pay for it. (if you want to run NFS on your Sun, you
still pay for it, just not directly)

I haven't seen any public domain, free NFS implementations for
the PC, have you?

If you own a Sun, IPX probably seems like a weird oddball protocol.  If
you own an HP LJ IIISi, which only speaks Novell over the Ethernet, or
an Intel Inport printer node, which also only speaks Novell, TCP seems
like a weird oddball protocol.

I use Novell with PCs and Macs. Obviously Novell is well integrated
into the PC. In addition, it is also well integrated into the Mac.
The Novell file server looks like just another fileserver to the Mac.
You use the normal Mac menus to control it. I haven't used the Novell
NFS service but I am sure it looks just like NFS to the Sun.

The Sun, on the other hand, is NO NETWORK to the Windows world.  And
Sun doesn't even have ANYTHING for the Mac. (or OS/2) Sun talks to Sun,
so who is proprietary and who networks better?

--
The government is not your mother.
The government doesn't love you.