On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 12:15, David Bank wrote:
In any case, I think its rather silly for Tage's customer to be buying new hardware and new software and putting all this money into their computing environment and leaving the NetWare server languishing, running a version of the NOS from *last century*.
I guess you've never heard of "if it isn't broke don't fix it". There are plenty of reasons to continue using it. 1. His client may have an 3rd party application that runs on it. Contrary to popular opinion when NW3.12 was the current version there were a lot of vertical market applications that were written to run on NetWare. Especially, in the Accounting, Insurance and Healthcare markets. 2. Stability - I still have a couple of NetWare 3.12/3.2 servers running at the company I work for. Why? The last time I looked they both had over 700days of uptime. They just work, just like our beloved SUSE Linux. 3. Not everyone needs the latest and greatest. This is especially true if the server is just being used for file and print services. The Current Novell client can connect to every version of NetWare going all the way back to NW2.15. So his client can upgrade their desktops and still connect to the *old* server. Every Linux distribution comes with the ability to connect to a Netware server you simply need to install ncpfs and configure it.