[comp.sys.apollo] does NFS come shipped with SR10+ ?

hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) (04/08/90)

   My HP sales rep was told that NFS comes shipped/bundled with the SR10.x
   OS.

Your HP sales rep is misinformed, as unfortunately seems to be a
common occurence.  NFS is a separate product; it certainly does not
come with SR10.2.

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim
  NORWAY

tpfabian@nasamail.nasa.gov (THEODORE FABIAN) (04/08/90)

regarding:

>Date: 	Fri, 6 Apr 90 18:14:00 EDT
>From: <LWONG%UVPHYS.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
>Subject:  does NFS come shipped with SR10+ ?
>To: apollo@umix.cc.umich.edu
>
>Message-Id: <90Apr6.181823edt.58804@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
>
>
>My HP sales rep was told that NFS comes shipped/bundled with the SR10.x
>OS.  He (and I) have been waiting for confirmation on this for a week.
>Can anyone confirm or dispute this?  This is a product we could put
>into use right away.
>
>Lynda.
>


our local rep in Cleveland asked us if we wanted a separate price quote
for NFS when we were putting an order in for a DN10000 recently..  

since SR10.x is shipped/required for a DN10000, I'd assume that NFS is not
bundled with it based on the comments of our sales rep...


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rtp1@tank.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) (04/09/90)

-------------------------Original Message----------------------
My HP sales rep was told that NFS comes shipped/bundled with the SR10.x
OS.  He (and I) have been waiting for confirmation on this for a week.
Can anyone confirm or dispute this?  This is a product we could put
into use right away. 
---------------------------End Original Message---------------------
NFS sure didn't come with my SR10.1p. Not only do you have to pay
extra (about $99, which is OK), you have to pay a monthly fee if
you want updates and response center support (about $50, which is
not so OK). The NFS I have was easy to install and works flawlessly
on my network, which has all sorts of stuff on it.  Unfortunatelyh,
this release of NFS does not work with 10.2p, and I have not
heard any word as to when the update will be available.  I think
Apollo should have made NFS a much higher priority, as most of us
DN10000 users cannot afford much disk space in the form of the
high performance winchesters you get for the 10000, and hence rely
on nfs mounted scsi disks (at about $2200 per 700mb) out there on
the network.  

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art@AERA785.MITRE.ORG ("Art McClinton") (07/21/90)

test test - pls ignore