Hi Joe...Here is some good stuff about Novell:
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InfoWorld
The Best of 1996
Server Software
Network Operating System
INTRANETWARE
NOVELL INC.
A lot happened in the network OS (NOS)
market last year, with the release of
Windows NT 4.0, OS/2 Warp Server 4,
Novell IntranetWare, and numerous
versions of Linux and other Unix variants.
We strongly considered awarding Product of the Year in
this category to Windows NT Server 4.0, but the fact is,
on the server side there isn't much to differentiate it from
NT 3.51. There's a better interface and more bundled
applications, but they won't lead to a dramatic impact on
the industry. The same was true of OS/2 Warp Server 4.
It seems that companies are in a race to run up the version
numbers regardless of the
actual changes to the
NOS. Novell, on the other
hand, made dramatic
changes to its flagship
product. NetWare has
been the best-selling,
most-used NOS for a long time now. And just when it
seemed that the emergence of IP as the world standard
for internetworking might sink the folks in Provo, Utah, the
release of IntranetWare, with IP included in the box,
proved that NetWare is not synonymous with "IPX only."
Also, a host of standard Internet technologies, including
DNS and a Web server, transform staid NetWare into a
viable Internet and intranet NOS.
infoworld.com
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PC Week
February 5, 1997
A better way to manage NDS
Novell beta brings snap-in simplicity to NT user account creation at
NetWare sites
By Mark Stanczak
From the article:
Summary: NetWare/ NDS-centric environments with Windows NT clients
should consider bagging Windows NT's Client Service for NetWare in favor of the upcoming Novell Workstation Manager for Windows NT to gain NT-invoked NDS management and user-account template abilities. Note that this offering is still a beta product, however.
pcweek.com
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Regards
Salah |
