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Section 4 LAN Manager/X Sales Information
1. What is HP's commitment to LAN Manager?
HP is continuing to make investments in providing
LAN Manager based solutions to it's customers. HP
supports the top PC NOS's in the industry and LAN
Manager is one of these. HP's strategy is to
partner with the industry leaders to provide the
best solutions to our customers.
For the HP9000, in May, 1992, HP began shipping
the LM/X server which supports Microsoft LAN
Manager 2.1 clients as well as allows file
locking/sharing between DOS and Apple MAC clients.
HP has partnered with Pacer Software to provide
Apple MAC client connectivity to our LM/X server.
Additionally, we have plans to provide LAN Manager
2.1 server capabilities by midyear of 1993. We
have just completed extensive performance
benchmarking on the S8x7 systems and the results
look great! A copy of the performance information
can be obtained from the GSY Hotline under the
subject "LMX8X7".
Our HP3000 solution consists of LAN Manager Named
Pipes for client server application development
and Resource Sharing/XL for file and print
sharing. We are continuing to support the current
versions of Microsoft's clients to access our
servers. For potential new customers, you should
utilize the consultative approach to determine the
solution that best meets your customers' needs.
The marketplace did not respond as quickly as
analysts/Microsoft would have liked, therefore LAN
Manager is not the leading PC NOS, but is among
the leaders in the industry. Microsoft is
committed to LAN Manager and continues to invest
in it. HP believes that LAN Manager is an
integral part of our client/server offering and is
therefore continuing to invest to new versions of
LAN Manager.
2. When should customers buy LAN Manager vs Netware?
HP's goal is to make as many system server sales
as possible. With the offering of the top PC
NOS's we want to allow the customer to choose. We
have established the following key criteria:
The application may dictate the NOS - if an
application only runs on one network and that
application is mandatory, then the network choice
is made.
The network is already installed and the user is
happy - by offering the choice PC NOS, HP will
work with the customer to add the new capability
he/she is looking for to the existing network. If
the installed network is MS-NET, then migration to
LAN Manager is the obvious choice.
There is no network currently installed - if the
customer is undecided and there is no network
constraints imposed by the application being
considered and enterprise wide networking is
thought to be an important capability, then a
TCP/IP based network should be recommended.
Today, LAN Manager is the only native TCP/IP
implementation HP offers. Novell will be shipping
NetWare with v3.11 (386) and has announced
intentions to support it on Portable Netware in
the future. At this time, LAN Manager is the
better enterprise wide TCP/IP solution.
If a system sale is not involved, then the
customer should be sent to a Vectra dealer, that
is, is the network is a PC only network.
3. What new features are available with the latest
release of LM/X?
The latest release of LAN Manager (internal name
release C) includes support of LAN Manager 2.1
clients and file locking to allow MAC and DOS
clients to share files. This release is shipping
now for S/700/800 and June 1st for S/300/400.
Product numbers are B1011C for 700/800, and B1003C
for 300/400. The new server version is 1.3.
(Please note, there was not a 1.2 version).
4. How do I order LM/X for my customer?
Send a desk message to the Network Hotline with
LMXORD as the subject. A reply will be sent to you
with the ordering instructions for a new customer,
as well as those wanting to upgrade older
versions.
5. What is HP's relationship with Microsoft?
HP did the initial implementation of LAN Manager
on a UNIX platform for Microsoft. This version
was based on Microsoft's LAN Manager 1.0 product
for OS/2 systems. This version and a follow-on
upgrade (version 1.1) were delivered to Microsoft
for licensing to the rest of the industry. HP has
an OEM relationship with Microsoft which means
that HP licenses the core LAN Manager technology
from Microsoft and completes the port to the HP-UX
platform. This allows HP to minimize its
investment in core LAN Manager technology and
maximize investment in adding value to this core
technology.
At the same time HP and Microsoft co-developed the
LM/X 1.0 and 1.1 versions, NCR separately
developed and delivered their implementation of a
LAN Manager for UNIX OEM kit. The fact that there
were two versions of LAN Manager for UNIX was
confusing, thus Microsoft chose to converge the
two implementations. It was decided that the NCR
platform would be used for convergence. NCR is
currently the co-developer with Microsoft for LAN
Manager for UNIX, while HP is an OEM reselling the
LM/X product on HP systems.
NCR is responsible for the development of future
versions of LAN Manager for UNIX systems. These
new versions will be based on Microsoft's LAN
Manager for OS/2 requirements and additional
specifications jointly defined by NCR and
Microsoft. This arrangement ensures continued
consistency and compatibility between LAN Manager
for OS/2 and LAN Manager for UNIX Systems in terms
of application programming interfaces (APIs),
interoperability, features, and functions. Both
companies license and promote LAN Manager for UNIX
worldwide. HP continues to license the product
from Microsoft.
6. When will HP have a LM/X 2.x product?
HP will not offer a LM/X 2.0 product. The timing
and effort involved to ship a 2.0 product allows
only a few month lead time over that of simply
going to LM/X 2.1. Since 2.1 is a superset of
2.0, this is what will be offered.
Shipments of LM/X 2.1 are targeted for midyear,
1993. The porting effort required for 2.1 is
significant due to architectural differences
between NCR and HP. LAN Manager for UNIX 2.1
relies heavily on streams instead of Berkeley
sockets used by HP in the development of LM/X 1.x.
HP's best overall solution with respect to
development and strategy is to use the streams
environment.
LM/X 2.1 will be offered on HP9000 RISC based
systems only.
7. Will NCR/AT&T always have a time-to-market
advantage?
NCR is the co-developer of the LAN Manager for
UNIX product with Microsoft. As such, they are
responsible for the development of future
versions. Today, they are the only vendor
shipping a 2.0 product. Contractually, NCR is
obligated to wait a period of time between when
Microsoft delivers the final code to all other
OEMs and when NCR ships their product. None-the-
less, they will always enjoy a some time-to-market
advantage.
HP's best overall solution for a LM/X 2.x product
is to develop within a streams environment. This
piece requires some extra time and must be in
place for the move to 2.x.
8. What features are in the LAN Manager for UNIX 2.0
and 2.1 products from NCR and will these be the same
for HP?
The attached message contains information relating
to the feature set of 2.0. HP will support those
features which are not NCR/AT&T proprietary and
what the HP-UX OS supports today. The 2.1 code is
still being negotiated by NCR and Microsoft and as
such, is not available yet. Those features from
the LAN Manager 2.1 for OS/2 product most asked
for are included in the attached message.