Date: Thu,  6 Feb 1997 16:26:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: mbarker@MIT.EDU
Subject: Future projects for ganderso

Mike:

Since I have the list handy, how about I send this to Greg for the both of us?

Projects we could be doing in order of decreasing priority, with
occasional annotations:

Support for SGI O2 systems:
	Gating on Irix 6.4 and AFS
	After that, limited by personnel in issues of integration, testing
	and deployment.  At present course and speed could delivery
	c. 10/1/98

Quickstations
	Even though we will be delivering this, it has been done in the 
	cracks, not as a real project.

Update Install
	Establish a project to work with vendors and to enable us to
	more easily take their new OS versions, and enable them
	to produce install kits that dovetail better into our requirements.

New NFS
	I have a contact at Sun working on NFS version 4.
	Too bad we don't have anybody to sit with him and
	get him to understand how close NFS could be made
	to meet the requirements that caused us to adopt AFS.

New NEOS with Applixware
	Neos, one of our flagship Athena systems, untouched for 5 years
	SHOULD interoperate with current microcomputer file formats,
	and SHOULD benefit from message digest technology.

Athena Long Job Facility
	Mike has some new ideas.  Too bad we don't have anybody
	with the requisite few hours available to begin a serious 
	requirements analysis.

Advanced Visualization
	Vijay's strategic project.  Means many things to many people.
	I'm not TOUCHING IT without more warm bodies in here.