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- REDMOND, Wash. -- March 9,1992 -- Eight original equipment manufacturers
- showed their commitment to the Microsoft LAN Manager software family by
- cooperating to promote "NetWorkOut," a multivendor demonstration of LAN
- Manager interoperability held Feb. 24-27 in Munich, Germany. The
- demonstration featured nine servers and more than 10 client workstations,
- and was the largest exhibition ever of multivendor interoperability for
- client-server network software. An unprecedented level of network software
- integration was proven between LAN Manager-based products running on a
- variety of server platforms, client workstations and operating systems.
-
- "NetWorkOut was an impressive confirmation of multivendor
- interoperability," said Bob Kruger, group manager, LAN Manager networking
- at Microsoft. "Interoperability among LAN Manager implementations
- addresses the increasing need for corporate users to access information
- across client-server networks and administer those networks over a variety
- of hardware and operating systems."
-
- "As developer of LAN Manager for UNIX, we found NetWorkOut to be very
- valuable in proving the interoperability of LAN Manager," said Bob
- Ritterbusch, manager, network products division, NCR Corporation. "It's
- important for the user community to know that a LAN Manager-based product
- they buy from one vendor will also work on other vendors' LAN
- Manager-based products. The interoperability between UNIX and OS/2
- implementations in particular presents real advantages for users. We are
- very excited about NetWorkOut and expect to participate in more of these
- demonstrations in the future. "
-
- "In support of our customers' systems integration needs, Digital has been
- configuring, installing and supporting products and services based on
- Microsoft networking technology since 1986," said Vijay Thakur, group
- manager of Digital's PC integration business. "Through PATHWORKS,
- Digital's corporate network operating system, Digital gives DOS and
- Windows-based clients access to multiple LAN Manager-based servers running
- VMS, ULTRIX and OS/2. As the largest OEM of LAN Manager, our relationship
- with Microsoft is the foundation for the long term in supporting LAN
- Manager and future Microsoft products."
-
- "Olivetti's Open System Architecture (OSA) is aimed at offering the best
- support for connectivity and multivendor interoperability, thus providing
- truly open, enterprise-level solutions," said Claudio Adriani, marketing
- director, distributed computing products, Ing. C. Olivetti & C. "The
- NetWorkOut event is further proof of the high degree of multivendor
- interoperability reached by Olivetti, together with the other LAN Manager
- vendors."
-
- NetWorkOut displayed interconnectivity from workstations running LAN
- Manager client software under the Microsoft Windows version 3.1, Windows
- NT and OS/2 operating systems, to LAN Manager servers running OS/2,
- Microsoft Windows NT, VMS and several implementations of the UNIX
- operating system on a variety of vendors' hardware platforms, all
- supported on an Ethernet network using TCP/IP protocols. (See list on
- accompanying page.)
-
- NetWorkOut Showed Multivendor Interoperability
-
- The client workstations in NetWorkOut proved to have transparent access to
- files and print services on all of the servers, without users having to
- understand the underlying networking software or know which operating
- system or implementation of LAN Manager was running on the servers. A LAN
- Manager test verification suite running from a Microsoft Windows-based
- client workstation in the booth tested conformance of the LAN Manager
- servers to the server message block (SMB) protocol, helping ensure that
- all the clients and servers were communicating with one another. Another
- test suite written with the Microsoft Visual Basic programming system
- checked LAN Manager application programming interfaces (APIs) on various
- servers, proving consistency from platform to platform. The compatibility
- of APIs across LAN Manager implementations help ensure that both client
- applications and server applications written to take advantage of LAN
- Manager are compatible with all vendors' server implementations,
- regardless of the operating system or hardware platform.
-
- The interoperability demonstrated at NetWorkOut among LAN Manager products
- for UNIX, OS/2, VMS and Windows NT operating systems means users on
- multivendor networks can be assured of easy, transparent LAN Manager
- operation. Users access all servers via a common set of commands or
- interfaces (used by programs such as File Manager within Microsoft
- Windows), and can maintain concurrent connections to files, printers and
- applications on an OS/2, VMS or UNIX server with no software retraining,
- and without having to know anything about the type of server on which the
- files, printers or applications reside.
-
- Open LAN Manager Council is Committed to Interoperability
-
- NetWorkOut was produced by Microsoft and the Open LAN Manager Council, an
- independent organization comprised of more than 18 Microsoft LAN Manager
- licensees from the United States, Europe and Japan. The Open LAN Manager
- Council met in Venice, Italy on February 20 and 21 to finalize plans for
- NetWorkOut in addition to discussing joint marketing of new networking
- technologies.
-
- The meeting, the Council's third in the past year, was co-sponsored by
- Microsoft Europe, NCR and Olivetti. Attendees included Dansk Data
- Elektronik, Hewlett-Packard, ICL, Microsoft, NCR, Olivetti, Research
- Machines, Siemens-Nixdorf, The Santa Cruz Operation, Tulip and Unisys. The
- Open LAN Manager Council is committed to providing superior networking
- technology through open, standards-based networking products that provide
- advanced features and application portability through common APIs,
- connectivity and interoperability across heterogeneous computer
- platforms.
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