[COLUG] shout out to Solaris Gurus

[Rick Troth]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Jim Wildman wrote:

> NIS = Network Information Service, AKA the yellow pages....
>
> It is/was Sun's attempt at something similar to LDAP.  I don't think
> it ever got widely accepted outside of Sun's universe, though it is
> certainly prevelant there.   ...

I'm surprised that you didn't see it as widely accepted.
Prior to LDAP,  what else was there for distributed reference?
(eg: /etc/passwd and friends)  Certainly it was dominant in academia,
though one would conceed that Sun was also common in that world.

-- R;