rosso@sco.COM (Ross Oliver) (05/02/91)
One of our technical support engineers responds to a recent posting regarding NFS and SCO XENIX: > rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes: > SCO is phasing out Xenix; I don't think they sell it any more. While it is certainly true that SCO does not have an NFS product for SCO XENIX, this in no way means we have any desire to stop supporting or selling XENIX. We have made this VERY clear both through discussions with the press (see UNIX TODAY, March 4, 1991 pg.4 ) and by announcing that we are about to ship a new version of the product, SCO XENIX 386 Operating System Release 2.3.4.. One of the main reasons XENIX is so popular is that it is a known quantity. SCO does not plan to perform major revisions to the XENIX kernel that would risk this stability. Instead, SCO has opted to provide newer technologies in our SCO UNIX product which is based on source from a version UNIX System V/386 from AT&T which already incorporates industry standard technologies such as the multiple filesystem support required by NFS. This by no means says that XENIX is a dead product. We are continuing to add new utilities as well as support for new peripherals to the SCO XENIX product line all the time through Field Enhancements and Support Level Supplements as well as new releases such as SCO XENIX 386 Release 2.3.4.. Under SCO XENIX, filesharing is typically done with the SCO XENIX-NET product which provides file sharing through NETBIOS running over TCP/ip. This allows you to share files with systems running versions of LAN Manager for DOS, OS/2, UNIX, et al. Regards, Louis Imershein Operating Systems Technical Lead The Santa Cruz Operation Technical Support Department