[TUHS] Banyan Vines? Banyan/ePresence dissolves self

[TUHS] Banyan Vines? Banyan/ePresence dissolves self

[Janet Sala]

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My recollection from those days was that Banyan Vines was developed in
collaboration with DEC.  I think it would have been more likely that it was
BSD or (eek) ULTRIX based.  I was working on system and network management
at AT&T USO/USL/Novell/HP until 1997 and never heard it mentioned that
Banyan Vines was on any sort of System V license though we were all quite
aware of the product.  I think I would have heard something if they were
³one of ours.²  Given the timeframe it would more likely have been some sort
of 7th edition license, but in those days BSD would have been the more
logical choice.  This is just my recollection, however.  I¹ll see what I can
track down in terms of facts.

Very truly yours,
- janet
Janet Frazer Sala

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> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:56:26 -0700
> From: Andrew Warkentin <andreww at datanet.ab.ca>
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Banyan Vines?  Banyan/ePresence dissolves self
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> Wesley Parish wrote:
> 
>> >Who would one need to get in touch with, to ask about the possibility of
>> >getting the various obsolete Banyan Vines bits and pieces donated to TUHS?
>> >(It was based on a Unix kernel, so I would say it - one of the first NOSes
>> to 
>> >have a directory - should be part of the TUHS repository.)
>> >  
>> >
> Wasn't it based on System V? Wouldn't that prevent it from being
> released? (unless they made a similar deal with AT&T to the one Sun
> made, which is very unlikely)

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[TUHS] Banyan Vines? Banyan/ePresence dissolves self

[Andrew Warkentin]

Wesley Parish wrote:

>Who would one need to get in touch with, to ask about the possibility of 
>getting the various obsolete Banyan Vines bits and pieces donated to TUHS?  
>(It was based on a Unix kernel, so I would say it - one of the first NOSes to 
>have a directory - should be part of the TUHS repository.)
>  
>
Wasn't it based on System V? Wouldn't that prevent it from being 
released? (unless they made a similar deal with AT&T to the one Sun 
made, which is very unlikely)

[TUHS] Banyan Vines? Banyan/ePresence dissolves self

[Wesley Parish]

I was reading Graklaw for more-of-the-same - boneheaded companies taking on 
productive people with intent to reduce dangerous productivity in favour of 
monopolizing transaction tokens ie, money - and I came across the article on 
some_bright_spark suing some other company for daring to try protecting 
networks from email-borne spam:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080125135544713

Which got me thinking - Banyan Vines was a player back then, and the comments 
mentioned only Novell.  Surely there's something about Banyan's Vines?

I did a google search and found this:

http://www.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2007/12/24/daily7.html?ana=from_rss
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Liquidating ePresence distributes cash
Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology
<snip>
 
 Framingham's ePresence Inc. reports a plan to distribute cash to its 
shareholders as part of its dissolution plan. 
 The distribution of $3.6 million, or 14 cents per common share, is expected 
to be paid this week to those who were ePresence shareholders as of June 23, 
2004. The distribution, combined with the previous distributions totaling 
$4.15 per share, would return a total $4.29 per share to ePresence 
shareholders, company officials said. 
 EPresence was launched in 1983 as Banyan Systems, selling a network operating 
system and directory. But competitors such as Novell Inc. and Microsoft Corp. 
subsequently moved into that market and Banyan switched focus in 1997. 
 In 2003, ePresence sold it services business to Unisys Corp. for $11.5 
million. In 2004, the company sold its online telephone directory division 
Switchboard Inc. to Bellevue, Wash.-based InfoSpace Inc. for $160 million.
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Who would one need to get in touch with, to ask about the possibility of 
getting the various obsolete Banyan Vines bits and pieces donated to TUHS?  
(It was based on a Unix kernel, so I would say it - one of the first NOSes to 
have a directory - should be part of the TUHS repository.)

Thanks

Wesley Parish

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