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davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
[talking about the TCP/IP code in UnixWare]
>   The original code was UCB code from BSD UNIX, there is now
> net-2 and whatever else out there as well. Royalty payments are
> not the answer in this case, but perhaps a desire to make it
> cheaper to use NetWare than NFS is. Just a guess on my part.

The TCP/IP code in UnixWare is licensed from another vendor by Univel, and
thus there is indeed a royalty payment.  The impression I get from the Univel
mailing list (now gatewayed to biz.univel.misc) is that Univel/Novell are
unhappy with this arrangement and plan to bundle their own TCP/IP into
UnixWare at the earliest possible opportunity.

Univel started with the idea of making it easy for NetWare shops to add in
UNIX boxes, but it's unclear whether a lot of them understand just yet why
they might want to do that.  Obviously, NFS is of secondary interest to
Novell.

It seems that Univel/Novell might be coming around to a realization that the
initial plan is not necessarily the best strategy, and that covering the
traditional UNIX markets might be more workable - at least at the onset.
This would mean bundled TCP/IP, better serial port support, and more
attention to dialup and terminal access.

On the other hand, I've been thinking that Novell's "application server" idea
(which I was initially dubious about) could work in nicely with a
remote-computing scheme.  Look at these cretinous programs that people run on
their PCs to enable remote access - wouldn't UNIX, which was built to allow
easy dialup access, handle dialins and remote application serving better than
NT?

Jim Vlcek
molly!vlcek@uunet.uu.net