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- From: donp@novell.com (don provan)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
- Subject: Re: OSI Failure?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.193034.22743@novell.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 19:30:34 GMT
- References: <uig3PB1w164w@Control.Com> <1992Aug25.175150.22420@novell.com> <1992Aug26.091153.25702@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Aug26.091153.25702@cl.cam.ac.uk> ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
- >The only question in my mind is "Why OSI and not SNA".
-
- OSI and TCP/IP products solve different problems than SNA products. I
- see very little overlap between those two markets. To the extent they
- overlap, it's because TCP/IP and OSI can do the same job as SNA. I
- don't recall anyone (until now?) thinking that SNA products could do the
- job that OSI and TCP/IP products do.
-
- OSI and TCP/IP, on the other hand, solve exactly the same problems.
- Technically, their markets overlap exactly. Politically, though, some
- people have used governmental force to inflict the various GOSIPs on
- the market, creating a niche where OSI products can be sold without
- competition from the TCP/IP market.
-
- >Novell's protocols even at the informal level that the Internet uses...
-
- If you knew me a little better, you'd know it's laughable that you'd
- try to draw me into defending Novell's protocols. Anyway, i'll brush
- you off by saying that the IPX protocol suite solves problems in yet
- another market, so it's as irrelevant to the conversation as SNA.
- Feel free to argue for as long as you want about whether or not IPX is
- a good solution for its market, although the people in this news group
- probably aren't very interested.
- don provan
- donp@novell.com
-