Paul >> Come-on you Novell employees, this is a safe one to respond to. Show me you can sell
the product. <<
Paul,
10 bucks says you won't get an answer. Know why, because you asked
a "no no". Know what that "no no" is? You want access to databases.
That is NW achilles heel. NW is a premier File and Printer server, but
is not an applications server. Oh, sure, you can write NLM's to do that,
but 3rd party developers don't like NLM's. They would rather write
to Windows API's (ala NT). Now, what you'll probably hear is ...
Wait, sure we can do that now, with a Java port. But this is new stuff
Paul. So there you are, this is the circle jerk we are in now.
This is what the Aberdeen report talked about. This is what Marengi
DOESN'T want to talk about. So, I say again, 10 bucks says you won't
get a straight answer. Wanna bet?
Joe...
PS: However, if NOVELL would get moving and FUD the market, maybe we
all might see some progress here, rather than inertia.
BTW, Barry, you certainly have enough material here on this thread
to write another article in Byte again (this time the reverse of the
July issue), don't you? :-)
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