Don't know and didn't ask. Give them a call: (412) 667-4400, ask for
AFS sales.
"Neulinger, Nathan R." wrote:
>
> Did they happen to mention anything about what new ports they were working
> on? i.e. Solaris 8/etc.?
>
> -- Nathan
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841
> 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.
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Todd Rannow Systems Software email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Computing Services, Inc. phone: (612) 337-3529
