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To: Don Earl who wrote (19295)	12/30/1997 1:40:00 PM
From: vinod Khurana	Read Replies (2) of 42771

For those of you who are not aware...the new release of IntranetWare or MOAB as they call it will be called NetWare 5.0 when it is released. Our Dr. has decided that taking NOVL back to the roots of the good ol' days will do more good than harm. He figures that the word IntranetWare has done its job in portraying Novell as an Internet/Intranet player and that it is no longer required. C'mon Doc. who are you fooling ? We all know MOAB was NetWare something.x no matter how one looked at it...from the left,right or middle. The reason it was renamed back to NetWare is clear (and I do agree with the Dr. for a change): 1. Users will think that NetWare 5.0 offers many, many more features than their current NetWare 3.x and be tempted to upgrade. Who would want to feel that their operating system is two generations behind ? Upgrading to IntranetWare sounds like upgrading to a whole new operating system. Then why not upgrade to NTS ? Upgrading to NetWare 5.0 sounds like the latest and greatest. Good move on the marketing front. 2. The name NetWare itself is an intangible asset. Getting rid of it is like taking a couple of hundred million dollars of the balance sheet. 3. IntranetWare did not sound right. It was a word too long. How many shops actually said they had IntranetWare. Everybody including their grandmother was calling it NetWare 4.x. The only drawback I see with this name ? For one, it ends in "0". Users will not forget that every release of NetWare ending with that magical zero has been buggy. Whether it was NetWare 2.0, NetWare 3.0 or NetWare 4.0, a major upgrade was fourthcoming six months down the road. O.K, NOVELL, lets call the new release NetWare 5.10 for a change and market NetWare 5.0 as the beta. Hopefully, then users will think that they have a reliable system on their hands. Now I can tell this companys NetWare 3.x Lan admins. to upgrade to NetWare 5.x rather than IntranetWare which they never understood in the first place except for the fact that it enabled them to set up a web server and to which they said "no thanks"....UNIX was good enough. V.K P.S I am still waiting for my beta copy of MOAB.

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