Re: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-20 Thread Barbie
From: "Jonathan Stowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a supsicion that SCO's 'VisionFS' is the same deal - or rather it > is a re-engineering of SMB or CIFS or whatever they want to call it ... If it's a re-engineering they did a pretty poor job. Another company I worked for had headache after hea

Re: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Chris Benson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:26:54PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > > > Hah! If I can't get them to use GPG, I have _no_ chance with Samba. The Unix > > box in question is running AIX. > > *Cough* several IBM people I've spoken to believe that IBM'

Re: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread Chris Benson
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:26:54PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > Hah! If I can't get them to use GPG, I have _no_ chance with Samba. The Unix > box in question is running AIX. *Cough* several IBM people I've spoken to believe that IBM's FastConnect(tm) "PC integration software for AIX"

RE: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread Clyne, Richard
Bull have a web site with ready compiled samba binaries for AIX - just say it comes from an AIX manufacturer... -Original Message- From: dcross - David Cross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 April 2001 14:27 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: (Don't Laugh) Buying

Re: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:12:57PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > Can't you call it an "Enterprise cross-platform file sharing solution" or > something like that? So is Napster. -- DEC diagnostics would run on a dead whale. -- Mel Ferentz

Re: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread Philip Newton
dcross - David Cross wrote: > Hah! If I can't get them to use GPG, I have _no_ chance with > Samba. Why? Because it's open software (or whatever they call themselves)? Can't you call it an "Enterprise cross-platform file sharing solution" or something like that? And get a company to support it?

Re: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread Piers Cawley
dcross - David Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PGP isn't free for commerical use. You're supposed to buy a license. > When our purchasing department here approached NAI to buy one, they > were told the the Unix (server) version was £27,000 and the Windows > version was £657. Stick it on a Wi

RE: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Rob Partington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:22 PM > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:03:33PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > Obviously, from the bottom line this is a bit of a no-brainer. But this > > leaves us having to copy files over to a PC, unencrypt them, and

Re: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, you wrote: > PGP isn't free for commerical use. You're supposed to buy a license. When > our purchasing department here approached NAI to buy one, they were told the > the Unix (server) version was £27,000 and the Windows version was £657. > > Obviously, from the bottom line

Re: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Partington
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:03:33PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: > Obviously, from the bottom line this is a bit of a no-brainer. But this > leaves us having to copy files over to a PC, unencrypt them, and copy them > back to the Unix machine. Which I'd like to avoid. Wouldn't be so bad if y

(Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
PGP isn't free for commerical use. You're supposed to buy a license. When our purchasing department here approached NAI to buy one, they were told the the Unix (server) version was £27,000 and the Windows version was £657. Obviously, from the bottom line this is a bit of a no-brainer. But this l