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To: vinod Khurana who wrote (5825)12/13/1996 4:43:00 PM
From: Eric Hall   of 42771
 
> NetWare was never designed as an applications server

As a consultant, I run into this argument all the time. It determines on your definition of "application." If you mean word processing apps or a GUI-based management tools, then you're absolutely right. But if you mean network services like DHCP, DNS, mail, http, etc., then you're dead wrong.

These services all do the same basic thing: read data off the network stack, process a transaction, and return data over the network stack. This is no more complicated than file or print services, which NetWare does better than anything else because that is what it's optimized for (network services; not 3D GL!).

NetWare makes a great platform for network service applications.
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