On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, peter honeyman wrote:
> 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.
Peter, I'd have to agree with you on this. :-]
Does Microsloth or any other vendor have anything like AFS in the works?
I'm surprised that Sun hasn't done some similar work with NFS on top of
their too-much-touted secure RPC code.
I really like AFS as a product, but Transarc really needs to get in
touch with the marketplace. They're acting much too much like Big Blue in
all of its blindness. I'd hate to see AFS and DCE go the way of "beta"
due to lack of marketing smarts.
-brian
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