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From: petersja@debussy.cs.colostate.edu (james peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Beame & Whiteside: fax number wanted (BW-NFS)
Message-ID: <14503@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Date: 24 Apr 91 21:58:16 GMT
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In article <10146@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> schlebbe@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Heribert Schlebbe) writes:
>We heard that the NFS software of Beame & Whiteside (BW-NFS) seems to be cheaper
>than the PC-NFS product of Sun Microsystems. In particular, B&W apparently 
>provides better license agreements for universities than Sun Microsystems does
>(single license only for PC-NFS).

I realize University prices for the original copies of PCNFS are not cheap,
but updates are peanuts.  We updated our whole campus to 3.5 for $140.


A word of caution; beware of PCNFS 3.5 and Windows 3.0 with a 3C501...
This is a very buggy combination.




-- 
james lee peterson				petersja@CS.ColoState.edu
dept. of computer science                       
colorado state university		"Some ignorance is invincible."
ft. collins, colorado  (voice:303/491-7137; fax:303/491-2293)