Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Munin Systems Inc, a tiny 18-month-old spin-off of Carnegie Mellon University that came into existence simply to develop products based on the Open Software Foundation’s Distributed Computing and Management Environments, is working on a back-up system for the Distributed Computing Environment. A beta version for Andrew FileSystem 3.0, the precursor to the more robust DCE version, is due first quarter. A more commercialised rendition for Transarc Inc’s Distributed File System is due towards the end of 1992 after the first iterations of the Computing Environment start appearing. Munin expects to sell its software to Foundation resellers under OEM deals as a replacement for the Foundation-Transarc sys-tem. Initial systems are considered to be the HP 700, the Sun 4, DEC MIPStations and IBM RS/6000.
