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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nailuj who wrote (29803)	1/5/2000 2:40:00 PM
From: sepku	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

GREETINGS Nailuj ms is the highest example of P.T. Barnums "SUCKER EVERY MINUTE" observation; best since Confucius. however, most "suckers" have at least half-a-brain and eventually catch on. NOVL (and other GOOD softwere co's.) will have it's day. Rome did eventually collapse. cheers

To: Nailuj who wrote (29803)	1/5/2000 2:55:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Consider this whenever someone says <<that MS has flat outsold Novell>> - it generally takes 2 NT servers to match the performance of a single NetWare server (basic file and print services) for anything more than 50 users. (I know that's a very general statement but...it's fairly accurate). Also, Microsoft "recommends" that for every "service" you have a designated server. So if you run web services, DNS/DHCP, File sharing, Printing etc - you'd need a server for each services, in this case that would be 4 servers. Better performance that way.... Another thing to remember is the limitations for DOMAINS. The Domain "database" (a flat-file that mimics Bindery Services, Novell's precursor to NDS) is limited by size (not technically but by recommendation) to 40MBs. So if your domain reaches that size you need to add a server and create a new domain. In contrast, NDS can grow to unlimited size (current version of NDS hold a billion objects at 4k per object average size.....hmmm..) Also, I can partition (cut up NDS into smaller portions) and places those pieces on any server I want to increase user performance since having information closer to users does this. To do this in NT I have to install a new server and make it a Backup Domain Controller that has the same limitations of DOMAIN size as before. Then factor in the replication issues, management headaches etc.... There are some benchmarks for throughput on the 2 systems - I'd have to look those up - don't have them on this laptop :) Yeah, I love those "buy MS products because they are out selling the competition". The truth is not that clear cut - there's a REASON they are selling so many servers and it isn't exactly because it's better or easier :) Honestly, people are making trade-offs when the buy into that - they are trading off the negatives for the clear cut positives (rich development space, apps server). Peter J Strifas