From: sss@world.std.com (Sergiu S Simmel)
Subject: Info on Kala now available via anonymous FTP
Organization: Penobscot Development Corporation, Arlington MA
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:51:54 GMT


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                  Penobscot Development Corporation
                              Announces
      Availability of Kala documents and Kala Forum back issues
                       via ftp for public use.
  Kala is a Persistent Data Server commercially available from PDC.

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All materials are Copyrighted by Penobscot Development Corporation.
Their use is restricted to inspection and internal distribution only.
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Kala Forum digests (back issues) and other miscellaneous Kala
documents are now available through ftp from 

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                            world.std.com
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To connect to this ftp site, type the following at your Unix shell
prompt:

    % ftp world.std.com

or consult with your system administrator if you use any other means
for accessing the network (such as BBSs, CompuServe, etc.).

If coming through a regular Unix connection, you should see something
similar to the following:

    Connected to world.std.com
    220 world FTP server (Version 6.12 Sat Nov 7 22:18:34 EST 1992) ready.
    Name (world.std.com:your_name): anonymous

You must enter 'anonymous' at the Name: prompt. In response, you will
see the following:

    331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password.
    Password: 

Next, to be on the safe side, type at the ftp> prompt:

    ftp> bin

On the world.std.com computer, the publicly accessible Kala documents
are located in the pub/kala directory. Change your current working
directory to it using:

    ftp> cd pub/kala

The Kala public materials are organized into the following few
subdirectories:

    pub/kala
            /KalaForum          -- contains all back issues of the
                                   Kala Forum digests
            /Articles           -- contains preliminary versions of
                                   articles published elsewhere
            /ShortDocuments     -- contains various technical and
                                   business documents about Kala

To get at any of these directories, just type 'cd directory-name' at
the ftp> prompt. To list the files in the directory you're in, just
type 'ls' at the ftp> prompt. To download any of the files, type:

    ftp> get filename

To exit ftp, type 'quit' at the ftp> prompt.

All Kala Forum issues are in ASCII text only. Other documents have
names ending in '.txt' to indicated that they are in ASCII text format
or '.ps' for PostScript format (other formats later).

Please let us know if you have any problems. Enjoy!



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                           The Kala Archive

                          Table of Contents

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.txt = formatted ASCII text file; .ps = PostScript file;

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~ftp/pub/kala                 -- the root of the Kala Archive


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   .../Articles               -- electronic versions of articles on Kala
                                 published in other paper-based publications

               /Byte9212.txt  -- "Objects of Substance", BYTE, Volume 17,
                                 Number 14, pp.130-133, December 1992.
               /Hoot9208.txt  -- "ODBMS -- Providing Commonalty While
                                 Supporting Diversity", Hotline on Object
                                 Oriented Technology, Volume 3, Number 10,
                                 pp.14-17, August 1992.
               /Hoot9302.txt  -- "Kala Licensing & Metering -- Infrastructure
                                 for a New Economics of Software", Volume 4, 
                                 Number 5, February 1993.
               /OOPSLA92.ps   -- "The Kala Basket", Proceedings of OOPSLA'91,
                                 pp.230-246, October 1991.

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   .../KalaForum              -- the archive of the Kala Forum -- the infor-
                                 mation exchange service on Kala and persis-
                                 tent data servers (see separate TOC in that
                                 directory)

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   .../TechDocs               -- short documents on various Kala technical
                                 topics

         /AppNote01-SimpleTransactions.txt   -- AppNote showing how you can
                                                implement a simple trans-
                                                action model in less than 1
                                                page of Kala code.
         /HowTo01-CreateMonads.txt           -- A memorandum explaining how
                                                to create layout functions
                                                around your applications
                                                data for packaging in Kala
                                                monads.
         /InDepth01-ModelIndependence.txt    -- Brief discussion on Kala's
                                                independence of any specific
                                                data or object models.
         /InDepth02-Transactions.txt         -- Brief discussion on Kala's
                                                support for arbitrary
                                                transactions models.
         /InDepth03-NestedTactions.txt       -- Brief discussion on Kala's
                                                natural support for nesting
                                                transactions
         /InDepth04-Recoverability.txt       -- Brief discussion on Kala's
                                                ability to recover from any
                                                crash, save media failure.
         /InDepth05-Performance.txt          -- Brief discussion on Kala's
                                                performance-oriented imple-
                                                mentation and results.
         /InDepth06-Security.txt             -- Brief discussion on Kala's
                                                secure implementation and
                                                support for security models.
         /InDepth07-SharedData.txt           -- Brief discussion on Kala's
                                                support for sharing of data.
         /InDepth08-Licensing.txt            -- Brief discussion on Kala's
                                                support for arbitrary licen-
                                                sing (pay-per-copy) and
                                                metering (pay-per-use) models.
         /InDepth09-SchemaEvolution.txt      -- Brief discussions on the re-
                                                lationship between Kala and
                                                the problem of schema evolu-
                                                tion in databases.
         /OMG_OS_RFI_response.txt            -- A Response to OMG's Request
                                                for Information on Object
                                                Services.
         /TechBrief.txt                      -- A 2-page Technical Brief of
                                                Kala.

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   .../BsnsDocs               -- documents describing various business
                                 related aspects around the Kala product:

         /Echo05-Shinji.txt                  -- A reference letter from Dr.
                                                Shinji Suzuki of University
                                                of Tokyo.
         /Echo06-Meyer.txt                   -- A reference letter from 
                                                Thomas Meyer of EDS.
         /PricingSun.txt                     -- Pricing and Ordering info
                                                for SPARCstation/SunOS.
         /PricingDos.txt                     -- Pricing and Ordering info
                                                for i80x86/MS-DOS.
         /PricingNRE.txt                     -- PDC's NRE and Consulting
                                                rates and terms.
         /ResearchProgramme.txt              -- Discounts and Terms for
                                                Research institutions.


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