[291] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Alternatives to NFS (Was: Re: Should the NREN be funded?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Crosswell)
Tue Mar 5 10:29:48 1991
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 91 10:12:11 GMT-0500
From: alan@curta.cc.columbia.edu (Alan Crosswell)
To: stev@ftp.com
Cc: thakur@zerkalo.harvard.edu, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: (stev knowles's message of Mon, 4 Mar 91 17:46:26 -0500 <9103042246.AA21203@ftp.com>
until AFS is supplied with the default operating system, and supported (as
much as NFS is) byt the equipment vendor, rather than by a third party, i
dont see AFS as being a serious contender. if one must pay extra, there are
too many people who wont want to when something that works well enough is
supplied free.
AFS is part of OSF/1 (technically it is part of the OSF Distributed
Computing Environment). While not delivered as a vendor-supported
product yet, I presume it will be in the next major releases of Ultrix
and AIX, among others. Note also that Mach and 4.3 BSD are also
examples of the same commercialization of DARPA-sponsored research.
Mach is commercially supported on the NeXTstation I am typing this
from and is also the core of the OSF/1 kernel and, as I'm sure you are
aware, SunOS, Ultrix, and many other Unix systems are direct
descendants of BSD UNIX.
It takes a while for new technology to move from the bleeding edge to
full support from commercial vendors.
/a
