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Re: Is Arla free for accessing IBM AFS servers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karsten Thygesen)
Wed Aug 18 04:25:05 1999
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To: Gerhard Gonter <gonter@maestria.wu-wien.ac.at>
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Subject: Re: Is Arla free for accessing IBM AFS servers?
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From: Karsten Thygesen <karthy@kom.auc.dk>
Date: 18 Aug 1999 10:15:25 +0200
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>>>>> "Gerhard" == Gerhard Gonter <gonter@maestria.wu-wien.ac.at> writes:
Gerhard> This licensing scheme is (IMO) a major blow for AFS as a
Gerhard> product. There are features which might be very suitable for
Gerhard> operations such as ISPs, but the licensing terms renders it
Gerhard> unusable for them.
As an university, we seriously considers to move towards AFS and we
also interpret "registered entities" as entries in the KAS
server. However, with the number of students we have, AFS is very
expensive compared to our limited budgets and until now, we have not
been able to find the funding for a full deployment.
Gerhard> Well, time to look for alternatives ...
Yes - but what can we point at? Coda? (which is not supported on our
Sun servers and which is rumored to be far from stable enough). What
is the other alternatives? Arla is a step in the right direction, but
milko needs a lot of work...
So...?
Karsten
