Banyan (company)
Banyan is an old-time networking company which around the 1980s produced
VINES, a
network protocol and set of utilities. It was once a competitor in the
file server market with
Novell, Inc. and others.
VINES also included StreetTalk Directory Services, one of the first viable directory services to appear in a network operating system (akin to
LDAP).
In October
1999 Banyan became ePresence, an
internet service provider. At the same time, it announced the obsolescence of VINES and other Banyan products.
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VINES Protocol
