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To: DavidG who wrote (23048)	7/15/1998 5:18:00 PM
From: EPS	Respond to of 42771

"Even if Microsoft's NT 5.0 and Active Directory were available now," Hymel reasons, "we'd still keep NetWare and Novell Directory Services (NDS) as our enterprise NOS. It's taken them six years, but Novell worked out the bugs and now has directories down to an exact science," Hymel says. In pragmatic terms, that means Hibernia can manage all 250 remote sites via NDS with fewer than 20 network administrators. "A wholesale switch to Windows NT would have meant tripling our administrative staff," Hymel says. computerworld.com

To: DavidG who wrote (23048)	7/15/1998 10:51:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Actually David, Novell hasn't really followed the techs consistently It often behaves counter to the techs. IT sometimes lately has benefited from a rotation within the techs. It used to move opposite to MSFT. So I'm not sure the whole tech rallying is an explanation. Also it was Duke that raised the issue of Novell employee options and I think it be a good idea if we concentrated on thinking that one out instead of calling everything we read "silly". I still haven't seen anyone take it apart. But please do so if you can get past being fascinated with Bulls Bears Shorts Longs and the other nonsense.