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@heading<AFS and the Web: Competitors or Collaborators?>
@heading(CMU-CS-95-153)
@center(@b(Mahadev Satyanarayana, Mirjana Spasojevic@foot<Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California>))
@center(July 1996@foot<To appear in the @i[Proceedings of the Seventh ACM SIGOPS European Workshop], Connemara, Ireland, September 1996.>)
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The World-Wide Web and AFS represent two different approaches to the
problem of large-scale information sharing.  The goal of this paper is
to critically compare these two mechanisms and to expose their relative
strengths and weaknesses.  Our comparison shows that the Web and AFS
are not realy competing technologies.  Rather, they represent complementary
technologies that may be used togther for mutual advantage.  We present
real-life examples to confirm that this potential can indeed by realized
in practice.

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@b(Keywords:@ )@c<World wide web, Mosaic, Netscape, Explorer, AFS, Andrew,
scalability, performance, API, GUI, Unix, caching, security, replication,
location transparency, heterogeneity, NCSA, Transarc, CMU. information
repositories, world-wide information systems, distributed systems>
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