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Subject: Re: Mac-NFS
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Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 10:02:04 EST
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I have been dealing rather extensively with Centram in the past few
weeks.  We have TOPS running on our Pyramids with numerous copies for
Macintoshes (300).  We have also had exstensive contact with Sun.
I am under the impression that Sun will be taking over Centram because
they have a big market share of IBM-PC and Apple Macintosh networking
products.  I it *my belief* that Centram will continue to sell the TOPS
product.

TOPS and PC-NFS are targetting two very different markets.  TOPS has
been up to now targetted at small offices that have Macs, PCs, or
a mixture of the two.  It is a good product for this kind of environment.
PC-NFS is much more expensive, and assumes an existing network with
larger machines.  I would guess that Sun is trying to have products
with would meet a broad spectrum of needs, not replace TOPS with PC-NFS.

Mac-NFS exists.  The excellent work was done by the University of Mich.
I believe the work was sponsered by Apple, and based on Sun's NFS code.
I haven't heard very promising things about the product getting out
because of various lawyers (there are three layers: U of Mich., Sun and
Apple).

Cheers,
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