Earlier I wrote:

>Okay, so we bought two 918's (one for Ohio and one for Texas) and
>are planning on installing SharePlex/NetBase (as soon as we get the
>tapes; but that's another email!) and running the data shadowing
>across a frame relay network.  I was "forced" to buy NS/3000 for the
>remote machine (Texas) by my Channel Partner, who said that they were
>told by whomever they purchased the equipment from that NS/3000 on the
>remote machine was "required".  Now, Quest tells me that NS/3000 is
>*NOT* required (on either machine) to run the data shadowing part of
>SharePlex.  I guess it used to be, but after MPE/iX 4.0 or so was not.
>
>So, a question:  What does NS/3000 do?  If I don't need it, I'll
>de-install it and send it back.  But, seeing as how I've already
>bought it, if it will do something useful for me, I'll keep it.
>

I should have added that we are going to run OpenView System Manager
and DTC Manager on the two systems.  Does this require NS/3000?  Even
if it does, I'd like to know what NS/3000 does.  Thanks.

Jim Phillips                            Manager of Information Systems
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