<<Originally, Novell officials had anticipated the show's network users
to send out about one million messages a day from the show's four
central locations. It turned out to be a lot more.
Novell's chief executive officer, Dr. Eric Schmidt, says the network
wound up supporting around 1.85 million hits a day, not the one
million expected. Crowed Schmidt, in his Wednesday keynote address:
"And we did it in only five days!"
The network, administered from the main lobby of the Las Vegas
Convention Center, had Novell employees on hand to guide users who
asked for help. But for the most part, they weren't needed. The
system had a quality of background invisibility that Cisco's John
Chambers has called a hallmark of good network design.
"If you look at the schematic for a large network, it is incredibly
complex," observed Chambers in his own keynote Tuesday. "Only an
engineer could look at it and get all excited and say, that's cool!"
Giving credit where it is certainly due, the Novell products used to
make the connections worked smoothly. They included GroupWise running
on IntranetWare, powering Directory Services for security and
administration. A subsystem called BorderManager managed access to
the Internet.>>
This is good. Right under Bill's nose. I would hate to be the NT 5.0 project manager having to go to Bill and tell him it was going to be at least end of 1998 (especially after Bill himself assured a mid-1998 final ship date). The delay is the best thing that has happened for us in a while and must be capitalized on by Novell.
We had two more crashes last week on 4.0. We haven't attached our mission critical apps yet.
By the way, Don. On the 4 billion NT sales figure you quoted, where did that number come from? Do you know how much of the "4 billion" was NT Workstation vs. NT Server? After a year, I still can't find good hard numbers on the difference and I think it is important.
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