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Subject: Re: NFS Connectathon
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Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 18:48:38 EST
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Geoff Arnold has pointed you in the right direction! The Portable NFS group 
(subgroup of Portable Products Group) over in Mountain View does indeed 
put on the NFS Connectathon every year. 

We concur that this is serious work event happening here and the invitation to 
participate is extended to all implementors of NFS (public domain and licensed)
who have said business to conduct.  Included in the list of about 30 
participants this year are several Universities. In addition to Unix 
implementations there are 3 for VMS as well as MacIntosh and PC implementations.

The official word follows:

The NFS Connectathon will be held January 11-15 somewhere in Silicon Valley, 
California (site not yet determined).  Each participating vendor will send 
their NFS target machine and development engineers.  The purpose of the 
Connectathon is to allow vendors to test their NFS implementations as client 
and server to every other machine present.  Sun engineers from the NFS and 
Portable NFS Engineering groups will be present to offer any assistance needed.
By the time of the Connectathon, many vendors should have integrated support 
for diskless clients, and we can test that as well.  We are also planning to 
have available some applications built on RPC/XDR to demonstrate on all the 
vendors' machines at Uniforum.  If you have or know of any RPC applications 
that will run on a heterogeneous network, please contact, Warren Smith, 
Manager, Portable NFS Engineering.  wsmith@sun.com or sun!wsmith.


Registration forms were mailed to all licensed vendors as well as the public
domain implementors with whom we are familiar. If you wish to participate
please contact us ASAP as the registration deadline is November 13th.

For registration contact: Sally Ahnger, Project Leader, Portable NFS Group
			  (415) 691-2858  or sun!sahnger or sahger@sun.com

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Clara McKenzie (nee Bogas), Sun Microsystems
Portable NFS Group, Software Products Division
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