Banyan is expanding beyond the NOS (network operating system) business and bringing its Enterprise Network Services to other leading platforms. Banyan has already ported ENS to Novell NetWare, SCO Unix, and HP-UX; the company plans to port it to SPARC and AIX platforms in 1994.
"Banyan has built a substantial legacy of excellent network services," says Greg Cline, director of network integration and management at Business Research Group (Newton, MA). "The company is moving beyond network operating systems [and getting] into the network services arena." Banyan is also getting into the client business: The company recently acquired Beyond, which is known for its E-mail filtering and forms technology.
Illustration: A recent report by the Business Research Group (Newton, MA) shows that in multiserver sites with over 100 users, Banyan Vines has the
lowest maintenance cost per user. Although Vines was overall the most expensive network to operate, the survey notes that Vines servers also had the highest average number of users (1059) per multiple-server site. Cost calculations are based on the percentage of time an administrator with an annual salary of $55,400 devotes to supporting the network.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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