[3629] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos on IRIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul (Cliffy) Palmer)
Thu Jul 28 12:48:35 1994
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 28 Jul 1994 14:52:06 GMT
From: palmer@SUPERMAN.msfc.nasa.gov (Paul (Cliffy) Palmer)
Reply-To: palmer@SUPERMAN.msfc.nasa.gov
In article 9vv@oak50.doc.ic.ac.uk, wjs@doc.ic.ac.uk (Bill Sharp) writes:
>In article <315tsf$ofa@mailer.fsu.edu> davis@masig.fsu.edu (Alan Davis) writes:
>I recently received the following about this:
>
>::begin email excerpt from Roger Allison <roger@dino.reading.sgi.com>
>
>:Silicon Graphics is keeping a watching brief on the developments in the
>:heterogeneous computing environment. Currently we support the Open Network
>:Computing (ONC) from SunSoft and will be migrating to ONC+ later this year.
>:
>:Earlier this year Silicon Graphics completed a beta port of the OSF/DCE 1.0.2
>:which uses the kerberos security.
>:
>:Unexpectedly, our user community thought that position of this technology was
>:uncertain and SGI has subsequently suspended work on this project. Given the
>:current confusion in the marketplace with respect to OSF, DCE and DME, Silicon
>:Graphics is likely to work with a third-party if this software reaches a
>:mature position in the computing arena.
Now isn't this a case of "the pot calling the kettle black"! The
beginning part of this year we were very interested in exploring a DCE
solution on our SGI equipment on my current project. We were so
interested in fact that it was a major topic of discussion on two
separate trips to SGI headquarters. During both of these trips, the
folks at SGI did everything they could to discourage our interest in
this product.
I certainly cannot speak for the user community as a whole, but from my
perspective it certainly appears that the "current confusion in the
marketplace" was generated from within SGI not the user community.
I would very much like to hear from other folks in the "user community"
to discover if mine is a singular or shared perspective. Since this
topic is only somewhat related to Kerberos, please send me e-mail and I
will post one summary posting.
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