2008/4/2, John Andersen
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Kai Ponte
wrote: there are still many large companies running NetWare 3.12 servers, many with 1000+ days of uptime.
3.12 was a killer version. From there it got weirder and weirder and eventually weirded its way into obscurity. They had to do it to get directory services in because that was the Microsoft selling point, but everything about netware 4.x and later was downhill. I jumped off the train and climbed on the linux bandwagon rather than go to netware 5.
With a big UPS at one of my customer sites, I did have a 3.12 installation run for over two years in spite of power failures. I only took it down to add more disk drives.
Novell marketing is and always was non-existent. They wrote the most dry ads and most leaden prose of any group I have ever seen. Its clear they neither understood their products nor had ever even talked to anyone who did. I always came away from one of their sales brochures with that "whatthefuckdidthatsay" feelings. I never understood any of their product line, or even why I would want to use it. It was like reading ads for left handed widgets written in Korean.
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Yep, it's sad, here Novell lost against CA because of that while choosing an Identity Management solution for the company, I wasn't involved though... Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org