Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : Atreyu
From : Weatherman
Date : Sun Nov 06 2022 09:20:30


A> Ahhhhh Blackberry... That was my "company wedding ring" for a decade.

Our organization used the Blackberry for many years before standardizing on the iPhone (gasp).  I am the ONLY rebel in the 20k+ organization that has a company paid android.  Not only do I deviate on the mobile phone, but on the mobile carrier.  Everyone with company phones use Verizon and I use Sprint/T-Mobile.

A> And yes, I do remember being told as a teenager that I should study Novell
A> because they will be the future. I was told to forget about Banyan Vines
A> or Lantastic... its gonna be Novell ALL the way to the millenium.
A> Microsoft wasn't even mentioned in conversation.

Novell was awesome back in the day.  I was a CNE and used to administer large Novell networks back in the 3.12 days and even 4.10 days.  I performed many large 3.12->4.10 migrations to Novell NDS back in the day.  NDS was better but Novell never gained the application support and Microsoft ended killing them off.  Especially when file/print services became less important and do many other ways to do it.

I also remember administering some very large email systems using Groupwise. Some of the largest deployments on the east coast.  One went to Lotus Notes (a pile of garbage, just because the new CEO loved IBM and hated Microsoft). Eventually that CEO was terminated and now they are using Exchange/Outlook.

Several decades ago I transitioned to data networking and security, doing high end large scale network architecture and design.  That space just keeps growing as everything connects to the network these days.  It won't be long until my toilet will be able to count flushes per day and will be on my home LAN.

- Mark
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