[TUHS] Banyan Vines? Banyan/ePresence dissolves self

I was reading Graklaw for more-of-the-same - boneheaded companies taking on productive people with intent to reduce dangerous productivity in favour of monopolizing transaction tokens ie, money - and I came across the article on some_bright_spark suing some other company for daring to try protecting networks from email-borne spam: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080125135544713 Which got me thinking - Banyan Vines was a player back then, and the comments mentioned only Novell. Surely there's something about Banyan's Vines? I did a google search and found this: http://www.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2007/12/24/daily7.html?ana=… Wednesday, December 26, 2007 Liquidating ePresence distributes cash Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology <snip> Framingham's ePresence Inc. reports a plan to distribute cash to its shareholders as part of its dissolution plan. The distribution of $3.6 million, or 14 cents per common share, is expected to be paid this week to those who were ePresence shareholders as of June 23, 2004. The distribution, combined with the previous distributions totaling $4.15 per share, would return a total $4.29 per share to ePresence shareholders, company officials said. EPresence was launched in 1983 as Banyan Systems, selling a network operating system and directory. But competitors such as Novell Inc. and Microsoft Corp. subsequently moved into that market and Banyan switched focus in 1997. In 2003, ePresence sold it services business to Unisys Corp. for $11.5 million. In 2004, the company sold its online telephone directory division Switchboard Inc. to Bellevue, Wash.-based InfoSpace Inc. for $160 million. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who would one need to get in touch with, to ask about the possibility of getting the various obsolete Banyan Vines bits and pieces donated to TUHS? (It was based on a Unix kernel, so I would say it - one of the first NOSes to have a directory - should be part of the TUHS repository.) Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.