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In article <5476@b11.ingr.com>, goodloe@b11.ingr.com (Tony Goodloe) writes:
> I was talking to a product manager for a company that manufactures (or
> will shortly) Ethernet cards for Mac IIs. I asked about NFS. She
> mentioned gatorbox, etc. I said those solutions are hoaky and just want
> to hang a Mac on the net and get to an NFS server. Simple. She said I
> "had identified a new market niche for them." Geesh. What an original
> idea :) Anyway, I told her that I would find out what the reception of
> such a product would be. So here it is. Please send some mail to
> uunet!ingr!b11!goodloe expressing your interest: I would like to see Mac
> NFS or I don't care. I'll (of course) will post the results in a couple
> of weeks. Thanks.
> 
> tony goodloe

Apple is likely to annouce such a product this fall.  Possibly at InterOp
in October.  They were expected to announce the product in June, but apparently
pulled it at the last minute.

I find it humorous that a hardware manufacturer who is just getting into
the market would not have done a better job doing simple market research.
From the letters and phone calls I have been getting there seems to be a
good market for such a beast.  But does any developer really want to jump
into water that Apple is heating?  It is a good way to get burned.  Then
again, perhaps there will be a flurry of products announced after Apples
that improve upon theirs?  Who knows.

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