Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Seeking a Development Environment (Sun?) Message-ID: <892@pyramid.UUCP> Date: Fri, 31-Oct-86 00:55:35 EST Article-I.D.: pyramid.892 Posted: Fri Oct 31 00:55:35 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 31-Oct-86 20:17:25 EST References: <4956@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 32 In article <4956@brl-smoke.ARPA> hi-csc!giebelhaus@umn-cs.arpa (Timothy R. Giebelhaus) writes: >I don't know if there is anything official yet, but I'll bet anyone >who wants to take me up on it a beer that Apollo will offer NFS as a >product before the end of the year. As I hear the rumor, there is a >royalty problem with Sun in providing NFS. I seem to remember another >vendor (possibly Piramid) having much the same problem. Nope. Pyramid was the very first vendor to sign up for NFS; there were never royalty problems. Working with Sun has always been a pleasure; the company is much too self confident to stoop to petty royalty squabbles. An employee of Integrated Solutions Inc., a 680x0 workstation manufacturer in San Jose, did grumble on the net on what they thought were interminable delays in getting their NFS source. Not the license, but the physical release tape. The implication was that Sun was stalling. I checked on that myself, and found that the delays were legitimate. Sun has covered their investment another way, by refusing to license ND. This means that Sun diskless workstations must have a Sun file server, at least for boot and swapping. But Sun has already indicated that they will be phasing out ND, in favor of giving NFS the necessary capabilities. I'm assuming -- I don't know -- that Sun will license out the enhancements to NFS as they always have. (Anyone for a diskless Pyramid? Sure.... :-) ) DISCLAIMER: These are entirely my own opinions, having nothing to do with anything.... I suppose that any society that has been as naughty as ours has been lately can use a little hysterical paranoid fascism. What's to lose?