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From: tomg@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com. (Thomas J. Gilg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP NFS inadaquatcies ( was: HP-720 vs IBM-320 vs Sparc2)
Message-ID: <101950241@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com.>
Date: 25 Jun 91 17:49:44 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.133356.14253@spatial.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> The recent Open Letter at least made some of the managers aware of News.
> That was A Good Thing.  Keep it up.  Hearing from real customers has
> more weight than techies repeating what they heard from real customers.

Yes yes yes !!!

>> I think very highly of HP, and am writing this in hope that others need
>> a full-up NFS on HP's & Apollo's, and that HP management will move it to
>> the RIGHT side of the "cut line."

Somewhere deep in HP, there is a focus group dealing with interoperability
issues, and the Domain/OS <-> OSF/1 <-> HP-UX NFS situation.

Several months ago, our lab was asked to participate in an audio-conferenece
with the focus group.  During our discussion, I unloaded *many* issues about
NFS, and followed up with a 3 page letter of specific problems.

I'll take up the action item to pester the focus group and see what their
progress is.   Late April was my last contact with them.   Maybe I can get
them to read notes/news.

Thomas Gilg
tomg@cv.hp.com