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From: Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger)
Subject: Re: Win 95 and FreeBSD Networking
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tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
: Microsoft will probably include NFS in Windows NT version 6, they are
: currently
: working on the RCP code for NT, this will ship with NT 5 if they can get the
: code done in time. (this directly from one of the NT product managers) The
: current rcp code in NT is not very good. It is highly unlikely that NFS
: will ever
: appear from Microsoft for Win95, so if you want to use Unix to serve files
: you might want to think now about tracking your users into NT as time passes.
: In
: a couple of years when NT has NFS you will be better off.
That's the typical answer from Microsoft-Fans or -representatives.
Why would they be better off then? What sense would it have to track users
into NT? They don't get NFS for now. PERHAPS they will get then in NT 5.
Unix will have NFS then also like it has it NOW. So with NT 5,
they would have NFS from an NT Server to Windows clients. Like now,
with a Unix machine and NFS clients for Windows. They are not available from
Microsoft, sure, but they are available from other vendors, these clients.
So what is your problem? Or do you think perhaps that M$ will use
Microsoft Extensions with the NFS protocol rendering it incompatible with
industry standard NFS? And you surely will say it would be better to use
Microsoft NFS? I think you are kidding...
"Microsoft will probably..." "Microsoft will ship...". Yes, Microsoft will
do many things... But no thing really.
I hate this "Go to NT!!!!" propaganda.
Ah now I see. Symantec gets its money by supporting Microsoft operating
systems. Perhaps it is that? Selling "tools" destinated to cover bugs and
insufficencies in M$ products...
Pascal
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