History sometime return and sometime not.
I never heard about Arbiter and my MFNetDisk is different (read the all features). But everyone are welcome to test the product www.mfnetdisk.com and not to put it in production tomorrow. If you put the product to production then I can promise you that you will face problems since this product is now in its beta stage, Yes successful beta but a beta. If history we are talking then history also happened to EMC with Symmetrix disks , I remember the fear the people feel when they put the Symmetrix to production but that history. I remember how IBM make the people fear about the new non standard Symmetrix and eventually IBM after delay of years start to build the same conception of disks. me: "MF people are fear to use new technology and we all know it. If you like you try the product and if not that also OK with me. I did not create this product because of money. Using my product at least in test will make the people to know if it is a bad product or a new good unexpected product. At least read the features of MFNetDisk and see what you can lose if you will be afraid to try". Playing with the product will make the interval time of beta to be short for bad or for good so what you have to lose. Try it and help me to find the bugs which every beta can have. People are using my product but I need more, much more people to fix what need to be fix. Thanks, Shai On 11/8/07, Andrew McLaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Does anyone remember, or have any details about a product called "Arbiter"? It was a kind of client-server thing which (as best I can remember) allowed host apps to see PC hard disks as DASD. This was a way of sharing data between PCs to the Host - save data on local hard disk, then CICS app would read it from the "DASD" volume. Something like that ... An old workmate and I were reminiscing about the late 1980s, when the site we were working at used this "Arbiter" product. It was extremely unreliable, and crashed daily, leaving hundreds of customer-facing staff stranded ... but that might have been a problem with local operations; not a defect in the product itself. We were not (I hasten to add) directly responsible for its implementation or operation! Neither of us have encountered this product at any sites since. So we were curious about where the product came from, who made it, did anyone else ever use it, and does it still exist today? Google searches did not throw up much. A fairly low-priority enquiry ... but I'd welcome any information Thanks and regards Andrew McLaren ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
