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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: Salah Mohamed who wrote (6208)12/26/1996 11:59:00 PM
From: Kashish King   of 42771
 
I suppose NetWare could be described as the antithesis of what Sun Microsystems views as a "correct" operating system whereas NT fits the cheezy-hybrid model, in their view. NetWare periodicals almost invariable proclaim, somewhere, that graphical interfaces are simply a waste of resources on a server. Just how much CPU time is taken up by the GUI on a server which is sitting there serving versus interacting with a user? Can we take an operating system seriously that gets bogged down by a few mouse clicks and bitmap displays?

January 1997 (that's 97 as in 2000 minus 3) BYTE article:

Novell confronts the intranet and the reality of TCP/IP

"... NetWare Administrator comes in both Windows 3.1 and Win 95 flavors and take s NDS to the next generation, for the first time allowing administrators to navigate among multiple trees and contexts using graphical drag-and-drop editing. Now you can select any of the trees you're logged in to from the Set Context option in the View menu. Click the Tree icon, and you can view all the trees on the network; you can then graphically select the context rather than having to type it in."

Excuse me? This is some earth-shattering event to take up over a 1/2 the page with? What does this tell us about the state of this operating system? Two page BYTE article, one page on cheezy graphical features so lame your dog will yawn.
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