We are looking at alternative strategies for running an Internet server
(WWW, FTP, etc.), library system (VTLS), and email for the
entire campus (4,500) on new MPE/ix *and/or* HPUX boxes.
 
We are also looking seriously at the possibility of using NFS mounts to
share file systems between MPE/ix, various Unix types, PCs (windows), and
Macs. With NFS, we could use a large MPE box as a file server for the whole
or we could have a large HPUX box as a file server and just do
some of the processing on MPE.
 
Any thoughts or suggestions on the alternative strategies would be
appreciated. We will end up with adding  both Unix and MPE, the question is
which way to expand the most and which duties to give each box. We
currently have both MPE (hp3000-967 and -918) and HPUX (hp9000-730), but
we expect to more than double our processing capacities and file systems
with these coming additions.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
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