Did they happen to mention anything about what new ports they were working
on? i.e. Solaris 8/etc.?
-- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Rannow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 2:11 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: the future of AFS (and DFS)
>
>
> Having seen the following blurb in this email list earlier
> this week, I
> took the initiative to call Transarc to get their spin on it.
>
> > > Since IBM bought Transarc, all development of AFS has
> been moved from
> > > Pittsburgh, PA (US) to India. All of the original
> Transarc people have
> > > left (expcept for the person that is training the new
> people in India),
> > > leaving the only working AFS server implementation in the
> hands of people
> > > that don't know the code. Furthermore IBM considers AFS to be in
> > > maintenance-only mode. Expect no enhancements.
>
> Here's my interpretation of the response I got from an AFS salesperson
> at IBM Transarc:
>
> Both AFS and DFS are considered by IBM to be "mature"
> products. That is,
> they are considered to be complete as far as functionality is
> concerned.
> So it is true that there will be no new enhancements.
>
> There is a development team in India AND a development team
> in Pittsburgh.
> The continuing development work is for producing ports of AFS to new
> operating systems and new OS release levels. (I believe he
> said that DFS
> would not be ported to any new operating systems.)
>
> Both products are still fully supported and will continue to
> be supported
> in the foreseeable future.
> --
> Todd Rannow Systems Software email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Network Computing Services, Inc. phone: (612) 337-3529
>
