Comments | spot: The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the guily and the irresponsible.

spot

The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the guily and the irresponsible.

Aug 26, 2010 16:23

Once upon a time (1984), Sun created an RPC implementation for Unix, with the intent of implementing RFC 707 (High-level framework for network-based resource sharing). Now, in those days, a good way to ensure that people used code that you wrote was to upload it to usenet, and in 1985, Sun did that. (Google has one of the posts archived here: Sun ( Read more... )

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netkit-rusers maintainer anonymous August 26 2010, 21:32:59 UTC

s/@hcs.harvard.edu/@NetBSD.org/

Wow! That's fantastic news! ext_242770 August 26 2010, 23:03:56 UTC

Oracle did something right! That's really good news.

NetKit anonymous August 26 2010, 23:48:03 UTC

dholland home is http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dholland/

netkit: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/netkit

or ask to Alan Cox.

loic August 27 2010, 01:03:10 UTC

Wim for the Win.

Why did it take so long after the Oracle acquisition for this to finally happen? ext_239257 August 27 2010, 01:16:42 UTC

Why did it take so long after the Oracle acquisition for this to finally happen? It began in April 2009 and finally got approval from the EU in January 2010.

Re: Why did it take so long after the Oracle acquisition for this to finally happen? spot August 27 2010, 14:59:57 UTC

Companies don't merge overnight, and we had to bring an entirely new set of people up to speed (most/all of the people we had been working with at Sun were no longer working for Oracle post-merger).