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To: vinod Khurana who wrote (3966)	9/30/1996 1:32:00 PM
From: Eric Hall	of 42771

> 1) TCP/IP dependent (wave of the future) NT is not TCP/IP dependant. It is NetBIOS dependent. It can use TCP/IP as a transport (just like it can use IPX and NetBEUI as a transport), but it is hardly TCP/IP-dependant. NetWare can also use TCP/IP as a transport, and NCP-over-TCP/IP is a million times better than NetBIOS-over-TCP/IP. > 2) Portable to RISC/Intel machines We've already talked about this. It's irrelevant. Customers aren't buying non-Intel servers because they can't get applications. All of the non-Intel vendors who only sold NT are out of the business. The only vendors who still sell NT for non-Intel also sell other OSes, which account for the majority of their unit volume. > 3) Remote dial-in/dial -FREE Okay, that's one. > 4) Internet/intranet software (release 4.0) -FREE And free with IntranetWare. > 5) Compatability with workstation O/S less of an issue if any. Huh? > 6) memory protection from mis-behaved software You can run NLMs in protected memory if you want to (check out the DOMAIN.NLM). This is standard with IntranetWare as well. > 7) UNIX printing -FREE Okay, that's two, although I'm not sure that this isn't included in IntranetWare. > 8) Integrates well with NW 3.x and NW 4.x (to certain degree) Not as good as NetWare itself does. I can't believe you'd cite this as an advantage. > 9) Hugh third party support and growing So does NetWare. > 10) Large corporations are implementing NT into production...not > just evaluating the technology. As more NT servers come on line, > the higher the probability that staff will continue implementing NT > servers as opposed to NW 4.x. I can't believe you said this, either. The number of firms who have and continue to implement NetWare far outweighs the number of firms who are implementing NT. > 11) Directory services with next release of NT MAY put NW buyers on > hold in anticipation of some "great" things to come. Microsoft publicly stated that directory services have been dropped from Cairo. Instead they will be looking to extend Exchange's directory to the OS sometime in the future (but not in Cairo). Points deducted for flagrant error. > 10) Least but not last, free exposer to advertising from the > majority of developers/hardware manufacturers backing NT. That's the second "10)"... Regardless, there are more vendors with the little "yes" stickers than there are backing NT. All told, the two benefits that you cite are free dial-in and free LPD. Hardly compelling when you look at all of the things that are lacking. While this is great for small sites, it's hardly compelling when you look at what the OS won't do in even moderately-complex LANs. The limit of 100 peer WINS servers is a joke. Even the requirement for a centralized NetBIOS name server (WINS) in a TCP/IP environment is indicative of the lack of scalability and functionality that the OS provides. Any perception that NT will replace NetWare is not driven by facts, but is instead a charge consisting of brain-dead assumptions made by poorly-informed psuedo-technologists. Real admins know the difference.

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