> i believe transarc has completely missed the boat with their afs marketing.
> transarc should give away afs client loadable kernel modules and
> associated client software (fs, vos, pts, etc.), and make their money
> selling servers. this strategy is working for netscape and a whole
> host of other companies in the client-server marketplace.
>
> as things are going now, i would guess that transarc has a few years
> left before microsoft and cifs mow them down.
Whoops. Sorry for the blank-o.
At any rate, some friends of mine and I had a similar discussion the other day.
Without a home cell, the AFS client is mostly useless, which means that if
anything, giving away the client would encourage more people to buy the server
software. Essentially it would be a free demo, but of course you really
wouldn;t be able to write anything anywhere, so you wouldn't get a demo of
those capabilities.
People have periodically talked about a free version of the AFS client. Anyone
still thinking about it?
-D
