Toy, I will keep correcting your FUD with facts.
A protocol like IPX doesn't constitute an OS. True, NetWare was tightly bound to IPX and it took a great deal of effort to make it's services protocol independent. But the NetWare OS remains the same. Just fill up the SYS volume and it crashes like it always has. Perhaps Modesto will fix that with it's micro-kernel, which BTW has nothing to do with size but describes a layered services OS architecture. More services, more size, same kernel. Novell will experience this when they flesh out the OS for general-purpose application support. Care to comment on Modesto and why it is necessary?
Novell chose to go with SLP as a locator service. Fine. Active Directory uses the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) as its locator service, is compatible with DNS RFCs 1034 and 1035 and uses port 53. Domains in Active Directory provide a security boundary and define a replication ring. Just as they do today. Something that is desperately needed in NDS since IRF's are cumbersome in a large directory structure and make security containment difficult. This was one of x.500's downfalls as well.
NT enjoys much more success on the Internet than NetWare because it is Internet PROVEN. Large commercial web sites run on NT technology (NASDAQ, Dell, GAP, etc.) Novell.com seems to be the only significant site running on NetWare.
Toy, you have only embarrassed yourself with shrill, venomous, cries. Please back up some of your predictions and assertions with facts next time. BTW, could you tell us the origins of "Hello World" or how many handshakes it takes to initialize a TCP connection. Even a novice programmer or protocol analyst would know that.
Keithsha |
