Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 22:54:26 +0100 (MEZ) From: "Manfred Usselmann" <Usselmann.M@icg-online.de> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Banyan Vines Message-ID: <20000110220241.55C001537E@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000109121434.F402@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2000 12:14:34 +0800, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Saturday, 8 January 2000 at 13:23:22 -0500, Nicolas Blais wrote: >> Hi, my name is Nicolas Blais and I work as Network Administrator for the >> 430th Helicopter Squadron at the Canadian Forces. We currently use Banyan >> Vines for all our Network needs but we would like to change it to FreeBSD as >> we where impressed of its power and specially its price. >> Unfortunately, we can't install FreeBSD as there is no easy way to transfer >> data from BV to FreeBSD since FreeBSD can't connect to the BV network. >> >> I'm wondering if there is a way to connect to it and if not, I'm wondering >> if FreeBSD will be able in the future. > >As far as I know, we don't support Vines. If we do in the future, it >will be because somebody like you finds it important enough to either >write the necessary code or fund its writing. My personal opinion is >that Vines has has its day and that it's time to move on. > This is not only your personal opinion, it has been officially announced by Banyan Inc.: Quoted from http://www.banyan.com/pr/oct99/q399earn.html: "Banyan Worldwide also announced today it will transition out of its network software business..." "...the division introduced its Microsoft Active Directory Planning Service, designed to help organizations prepare to migrate to, or implement new systems based on Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server." Manfred -- Manfred Usselmann usselmann.m@icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- I C G Informationstechnologie Consulting GmbH Bahnstr. 7, D-65835 Liederbach / Ts. Tel. +49 69 333 623, Fax +49 69 306 845 -------------------------------------------------- http://www.icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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