Version 1.1 of Microsoft Corp’s LAN Manager for Unix is now shipping, and includes new software for remote administration and 70 new programming interfaces for integrating applications on the network. Introduced back in January as LAN Manager/X, the portable version of LAN Manager has been aimed at networking vendors looking to connect Unix machines up to MS-DOS and OS/2-based personal computers, and is claimed to be fully compatible with LAN Manager for OS/2, MS-NET and Xenix-NET versions. The remote administration software enables a LAN Manager server to be accessed from OS/2 via a Windows-based user interface, with facilities to view, copy or delete Unix or MS-DOS files on the server. The 70 additional application programming interfaces, which are backward-compatible with the previous release, are designed to integrate configuration, auditing, printing, interprocess communication, file, server, user, error logging and statistics services into applications. Microsoft had help from Hewlett-Packard on the development work, while other OEM customers working on the product include AT&T, Dansk Data, Data General, Groupe Bull, ICL, Olivetti, Tandem Computers and Unisys. The Santa Cruz Operation (for Open Desktop), Informix, Ingres, Oracle and Sybase are also working on software incorporating it. Meanwhile, as reported (CI No 1,490), Microsoft has begun shipping version 2.0 of LAN Manager for MS-DOS, Windows and OS/2 users, changing the pricing structure so that it costs $1,000 for the first five users, and $1,000 for each additional 10 users, or $5,500 for an unlimited user licence.
