sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sunflash@suntri sunflash-Send requests and problem reports to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash USL AND SCO LICENSE ONC+ SunFLASH Vol 51 #37 March 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Laura Ramsey Org: SunSoft Inc. Phone: (415) 336-7039 Contact: Emily Cohen Org: Hi-Tech Communications Phone: (415) 904-7000 UI-ATLAS Roadmap and Common Open Software Environment to Include ONC+ SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 29, 1993 -- SunSoft today announced agreements with USL and SCO whereby the two companies will license SunSoft's ONC+ networking technology. With this announcement, ONC+ is now available to vendors representing a majority of the current UNIX software market. ONC+ is based on the industry-standard ONC/NFS networking technology which has a total installed base of more than 4 million nodes worldwide. In addition, ONC+ has been adopted for the recently-announced common open software environment being developed by Hewlett Packard, IBM, SCO, SunSoft, Univel and USL. SunSoft began shipping its ONC+ 1.0 distributed computing platform in February. The product has been very well-received, having been selected by UNIX International (UI) as a standard networking reference technology for UI-ATLAS. With this selection, SunSoft is now the official supplier of ONC+ to the entire UI community, representing over 200 vendors, end user companies, and universities. Today, ONC/NFS is licensed by leading systems vendors and is available on major operating systems, including DOS, MVS, VMS, OS/2, MacOS, VM, SunOS, AIX, HP/UX, A/UX and Ultrix. "ONC+ is a key part of our interoperability strategy. It will allow our customers to manage increasingly larger and more complex networks without imposing a major migration challenge," said Doug Michels, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Santa Cruz Operation. "ONC+ is an important distributed computing technology for the UNIX system marketplace," said Andy Hoffman, vice president of distributed computing solutions at UNIX System Laboratories. "USL will provide ONC+ for UNIXware as part of its commitment to the common open software environment." "With ONC/NFS supported on more operating systems and hardware platforms than any other distributed computing technology in the marketplace, these endorsements of ONC+ by key UNIX vendors ensure that customers have a natural migration path for deploying client-server computing in multivendor heterogeneous environments," said Jim Billmaier, vice president of product marketing at SunSoft. ONC+ includes a new enterprise name service called Network Information Service Plus (NIS+), Transport-Independent Remote Procedure Call (TI-RPC), Transport Layer Interface (TLI), and a multithreaded Network File System (NFS). Over the next year, SunSoft will add many new features to ONC+, including a cache file service (CFS) for local caching of network-based files, a uniform file name space, a new enhanced NFS protocol, enhancements to the NIS+ name service, and NFS running over the TCP transport for wide area network (WAN) support. These features will significantly improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of ONC+ in global enterprise networks. SunSoft, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. The company has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. SunSoft is a leading supplier of 32-bit system software solutions for SPARC and Intel 80386/486-based computers. The products are licensed by SunSoft and distributed through major computer manufacturers and resellers worldwide. ### (c) 1993 SCO and the SCO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Sun Microsystems, Inc. SunSoft, Solaris and ONC+, ONC and NFS are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories in the U.S. and other countries. All other products or service names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. Please contact your local Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in your region. Descriptions of, or references to products or publications within SunFlash does not imply an endorsement of that product or publication by Sun Microsystems. John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@Sun.COM. +1 305 351 4909.