Subj : Re: Novell NetWare :)
To   : acn
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jun 03 2021 07:37:00

-=> acn wrote to 8-Bit <=-

 ac> I never understood why anyone really wants a Windows Server system, and
 ac> I pity everyone who has to work on such systems (me included).
 ac> In the past, NetWare always was the better option and today a
 ac> Linux-based system would be my preferred choice.

Novell's high cost got Microsoft's foot in the door, and just good enough 
(but significantly cheaper) gave them an opening. Novell didn't support IP 
well, and UNIX was expensive and needed separate admin staff at the time.

So, given your choice of Netware for file and print services, and a UNIX 
environment for IP management, or a couple of NT boxes with GUIs to do it 
all, lots of companies took the Microsoft path.

Sure, they were 23/6 systems and needed the occasional reboot, but the 
people who needed the extra uptime could use Netware.

Active Directory versus Novell DS was the final killer. With Microsoft 
owning most of the client OSes that was a done deal.

 ac> all malware targets Windows+Outlook+Exchange+AD, which seems today's
 ac> variant of "no one ever got fired for buying IBM".

I made a good living setting up Linux environments with mail, groupware and 
file/web services for startups back in the early 2000s for people who 
couldn't afford "WOEA", but now I think G suite does a better job than 
bringing it in-house.

 ac> My eBay finding of NetWare 4.11 and GroupWise will arrive approx.
 ac> friday and the seller told me that he included some other Novell
 ac> products he is clearing out :)

Please don't make me run a Novell network at my house. Please don't make me 
want to run a Novell network at my house...


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