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In article <CG15rq.Fz@crdnns.crd.ge.com>, boehmer@dso037.sch.ge.com (Eric M. Boehm) writes:
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|>From: boehmer@dso037.sch.ge.com (Eric M. Boehm)
|>Subject: Looking for sites using DECathena
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|>Summary: What is your opinion of DECathena?
|>Keywords: distributed dce dme athena dec
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|>Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
|>Date: Fri, 5 Nov 93 12:55:01 EST
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|>I am looking for information from sites using DEC's DECathena product.
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|>1. Why did you get DECathena (what needs was it to fulfill)?

We went with DECathena because we need to implement a very large distributed
workstation environment which was location independent. We had only a few
people and needed to be able to support many workstations per support person.

|>2. How many workstations do you have?

1,200 consisting of a mixture of DECstations, Sparcstations, HP 9000/7XX and
IBM RS6000 machines. We use AFS exclusively for a file system. Currently there
are over 14,000 active accounts and we average over 9,000 logins per day.

|>2. Did it meet your needs?

For the most part. We would like to have some things like proxy and extendable
security tickets, heirarchical directory services, etc... But we are getting
by until DCE becomes usable in production.

|>3. What do you like about it?

It is consistant and it scales up to large numbers of machines/users

|>4. What don't you like about it?
|>

The biggest complaint by far has nothing to do with Athena. Since we run Unix
machines, we cannot run common programs like Microsoft Word/Excel etc... This
causes more problems than anything else.

Bill Willis
North Carolina State University