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Banyan Q&A's
Q: On which systems will Banyan Vines be ported?
A: HP 9000 series 800 Business Servers
Q: When will the products be available?
A: Banyan VINES on HP-UX will be available by the end of the year.
Q: What will be the channels of distribution? Who will be
selling/reselling the products?
A: Banyan will be an HP Premier Solutions Partner, HP's highest
level of Channel partner designation. In the U.S. for
specific customer situations, HP will have the opportunity
to resell Vines software on HP-UX as a systems integrator. In Europe,
the channel strategy is still being developed. European
distribution plans will be announced shortly.
Q: How will Banyan Vines software be supported on HP
systems?
A: It is expected that HP and Banyan will support their own
respective products. Technical Support Agreements have
been signed which define how our support organizations
will work together. This should result in smoother, faster
results for our customers. For customers who desire it,
HP will be providing software support contracts for Banyan
Vines on HP-UX as a custom support agreement. Banyan
resellers will also have the opportunity to provide support
if they are involved with a sale.
Q: Will HP and Banyan be offering joint training programs,
seminars, and sales promotions?
A: Yes, joint marketing is part of the relationship. More
details will come in the future.
Q: What does the inclusion of Banyan Vines mean to HP's NOS
strategy? Which NOS will be most strategic? (Banyan,
NetWare, LanManager, Appleshare, NFS?)
A: HP's overall strategy is to be the Open Systems Leader by
providing the most robust set of desktop integration
solutions to HP system customers. HP will support our
customers prefered clients for connectivity to the server.
By offering Banyan Vines support for HP-UX servers, we
broaden our solutions and support the installed base of
Vines LAN environments providing integration with our high-
performance HP/UX servers. No one NOS is more strategic
than the other, as we realize our customers may have any of
the leading NOS's running on their LANS. (Banyan Vines,
NetWare or Lan Manager, NFS, Appleshare)
Q: Is HP the first vendor to have Banyan Vines available?
A: HP is the first RISC Unix vendor to make Vines available on
their systems. SCO also supports Banyan Vines today on
Intel.
Q: Whom would I contact if I have a potential sale and need
assistance?
A: Call 1-800-2Banyan
Q: Does the Banyan annoucement have any affect on HP's
relationships with Microsoft or Novell?
A: No, HP will continue our strategy of supporting our
customers preferred desktop environment.
Q: How does the Banyan announcement impact HP's networking
strategy?
A: This announcement adds to the HP objective of being the open
systems vendor of choice. In providing open system
connectivity solutions to our customers, we need to provide
support for and connection to desktop and enterprise-wide
environments strategic to customers. Banyan Vines is used
by many customers as an enterprise network operating
system.
By providing support for Banyan Vines on our Commercial Unix
servers, we now can bring the benefits of commercial Unix,
(high-reliability, commercial application availability and
scalability) to Banyan Vines customers.
From a networking perspective, this solution adds to our
interoperability and connectivity objectives for supporting
the client-of-choice and having open-systems networking
solutions for enterprise-level connectivity.
Q: Who is involved in the development of VINES on HP-UX?
A: HP and Banyan began working together at the beginning of 1992
at the request of several common customers. Banyan's
R&D organization is porting the product, however HP has
provided significant assistance such as technical
support and dedicated HP resources on loan to Banyan to
ensure the port flows smoothly.
Q: Is OpenVines on HP-UX portable or native?
A: The OpenVines on HP-UX product will be tightly integrated
with and specially tuned for the HP-UX operating system.
Customers will be able to continue running HP-UX
applications. We anticipate the tight OpenVines/HP-UX
integration will provide the NOS performance that customers
expect and need.
Q: What are the benefits for porting OPENVINES to a RISC
UNIX platform for customers?
A: The HP 9000 Series 800 platform provides a scalable
growth path for Banyan customers who may have outgrown
existing Intel platforms. By providing the same rich Banyan
services on a performant RISC platform, Banyan customers can
continue to grow without relearning the Banyan software.
MIS managers of large firms can also operate with a common
Banyan architecture across multiple hardware platforms. This
has benefits in terms of ease of management and cost of
staff training. For customers not using Banyan today, this
provides a NOS alternative and Banyan's rich functionality
which was previously unavailable to RISC UNIX users.
This port combines Banyan's Enterprise Networking Services
with the speed and performance of RISC platforms. This
enables customers to combine mission-critical applications
with Banyan Network Services on a single HP 9000 Series 800
Server, and thus better integrate business applications with
the desktop and the enterprise.
Q: What are the benefits of Banyan on the HP 9000 Series 800?
A: The HP 9000 Series 800 will be able to seamlessly
integrate into existing Banyan networks.
The HP 9000 Series 800 will be able to offer Banyan's
acclaimed services such as it's Streetalk Directory
Services, and Banyan's Messaging Services.
(See above for other benefits).
Q: What is the difference between Banyan on PA-RISC and Novell
on PA-RISC?
A: These initiatives have different designs. Banyan's port is to the
Series 800 under HP-UX. Therefore, Banyan can operate in
conjunction with other UNIX applications. This is similar to HP's other
NOS offerings which are available today such as LAN Manager for UNIX or
NetWare for UNIX.
NetWare PA-RISC is a different architecture in that NetWare is the
operating system and thus runs directly on top of PA-RISC. HP-UX
applications cannot operate in this environment.
Q: What type of Clients will Banyan support?
A: Windows, OS/2, and DOS PC's. Also planned are capabilities to tightly
integrate with UNIX Clients (via NFS) and will include file locking
between Banyan and NFS, and shared print resources between PC's and
UNIX workstations.
Q: As an HP-UX user on a PC how would I login to the HP9000 over a
Banyan Network?
A: The VINES for HP-UX product will have a client option called
Asychronous Terminal Emulation or (Banyan VT) this is a Virtual
Terminal Capability which runs over VINES/IP. Alternatively,
you could use Telnet if PC/ARPA services are installed. However,
the latter involves a dual stack implementation and thus uses
more memory and disk.
Q: If I want to use ARPA services on my PC such as FTP, in addition to
VINES, will PC/ARPA packages co-exist with Banyan on my client?
A: Yes In general, the Banyan client software will co-exist with PC/ARPA
packages such as FTP Software.