aad@stepstone.com (Anthony A. Datri) (02/23/89)
tperala@ub.d.umn.edu (Tim Perala) writes: >This company recently added NFS server support to the system. >The rub is that they wany what I consider to a large sum of money to >purchase this as an add-on product. >I understand that they must be paying royalties to Sun Microsystems, but >the cost (initial license plus maintenance) seems unreasonable. Actually, I don't think they're necessarily paying royalties to Sun. I believe that Sun has made the NFS protocol public, and the sources for their RPC seem to be public. I think what happens is that some vendors license Sun's implementation of NFS instead of writing their own. HP seems to have done this, and HP-UX seems to come with NFS as part of the distribution. Other vendors roll their own. Anthony A. Datri @SysAdmin(Stepstone Corporation) aad@stepstone.com stpstn!aad