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Technology Stocks : Novell is Dead. Apple is Dead. Long Live Microsoft!
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To: Bill Ott who wrote (176)9/10/1996 12:33:00 PM
From: Mark Finger   of 238
 
The real difference is the capability of the OS's to support applications. As far as I know, Novell still uses the NLM (Netware Loadable Module), which runs in "Ring 0". This means no protection from bad pointers in another program. One bug or poorly designed program can bring the whole system down. There are lots of other missing pieces of support in Novell relative to NT.

The real key to large growth is the area of RDBMS and the Internet. All the competition in these markets seems to center on Unix and NT, not Novell. Just look at the effort of the Big 3 DBMS companies (Oracle, Informix, Sybase) in NT vs. Novell (Do any of them have an offering on Novell that is even close to their Unix and NT offerings?) Netscape is working on Unix and NT, not Novell as a server.

Basically, the decision is going to come down to scalability and applications in the long run. For very small businesses, Novell may be enough. For anything else, NT is the only real competition to Unix.

If you want to see the "wave of the future", see where the major developers are concentrating their effort. That is why Windows is now the winner, and Apple is on the ash-heap. You could see that several years ago. The same is true in the NT-Novell competition. "Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it."
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