[OpenAFS] ACLs and open-afs

J Michael Mosley J Michael Mosley <jmmosley@uncc.edu>
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:04:11 -0400 (EDT)


That's fine.

Mike

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> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:37:08 -0400
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> At 09:59 AM 10/12/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> >
> > > > with the Win32 support, as I bet a lot of sites do. Somebody could
> > > > make a good bit of cash selling support to universities by producing
> > > > a commercial Win32 client.
> > >
> > > Someone did (well, for NT/2000/XP) and to be honest I still have no idea
> > > why they're quitting the business.
> >
> >Are you speaking of IBM/Transarc?  They are quitting because it's not an
> >"ooh, wow" hype-filled endeavor that's guaranteed to produce earnings
> >(either real or virtual) next quarter and every quarter thereafter.
> >
> >Cynical?  Me?
> 
> I'm with you.  My feeling is that they really didn't know what they had, or 
> could not figure out how to make money at it.  Poor IBM, they made the only 
> filesystem that rolls right over any other filesystem created by Microsoft, 
> Novell, or Sun's NFS, and what did they do?  They just dropped it.  I would 
> hate to be the top level manager that made that decision!
> 
> Rodney
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