On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ken Hornstein wrote:
| However, I don't think the NT/AFS product is dead by any means.
| It's pretty obvious from the copyrights on the AFS pages that they
| suffer the same problem as AFS itself; no work has been put into
| them in the last few years. At Decorum this year Transarc said
| they were renewing AFS development, and working on the problems
| with the NT AFS client. So I think things are going to improve ...
| but I don't know when.
Transarc said as much to those of us who participated in the customer
conference call this year. They expressed a renewed committment to
developing AFS, and promised:
- A Win95 client based on the NT client (egads)
- Windows NT AFS server
- NT-based 'command console'/admin tool
There were other things promised which I have in my notes somewhere.
I'm 'cautiously optimistic'. I think AFS is a great product, and the
only good solution currently available for some needs. I would love to
see it given the development and marketing support it needs to become
extremely successful. Transarc is an IBM company, though, and there are
lots of great ideas and software that have never seen the light of day out
of IBM labs.
-brian
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Brian W. Spolarich - ANS Communications - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 734-214-7311
"Not a whit, we defy augury." - Hamlet, V, ii
