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To: EPS who wrote (23479)	8/14/1998 1:06:00 AM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42771

ALERT!ALERT! TOMORROW'S BUSINESS WEEK HAS AN ARTICLE ON NOVELL TITLED: NOVELL HAS TO HIT THE GAS CHART: Novell: Still Struggling

To: EPS who wrote (23479)	8/15/1998 10:47:00 AM
From: EPS	Respond to of 42771

August 17, 1998 Better NetWare late than NT never It's one thing to arrive fashionably late for a party, but it's quite another to show up after most of the guests have gone home. As noted in our Page One article by Emily Fitzloff, Bob Trott, and Ed Scannell, that pretty much sums up the situation with NetWare 5 from Novell and Windows NT 5.0 from Microsoft. For Novell, the delivery of this version represents redemption. After dragging its heels on IP support for years, the company finally embraces native IP support, which for the first time will turn NetWare into a network operating system that can really span wide area networks. And although Novell is significantly late with this release, they still delivered it in time for a good portion of their customers to adopt it before the year-2000 crisis consumes all of their available manpower. Microsoft, on the other hand, will be lucky to get any significant adoption of NT 5.0 before 2001. This means that for the foreseeable future, we can expect to see heterogeneous, multitier enterprise computing architectures dominating the IT landscape. NetWare will continue to be the dominant provider of file and print services, Unix and mainframe systems will continue to host most of the data, and NT 4.0 will be used as the primary platform for application servers that need low- to medium-range scalability. The bad news for Redmond is that the company's Uber-NT vision overall, also known as Microsoft's Digital Nervous System, is pretty much kaput without a credible NT 5.0 story to back it up. And once more, by the time Microsoft gets around to delivering NT 5.0, most IT shops will be pretty comfortable with multitier computing architectures. So the promise of a homogenous NT infrastructure won't seem quite as compelling in 2001. So the question is, has Microsoft been humbled enough to start doing the right thing to support IT diversity, or are is the company merely taking a more practical approach with tools such as Visual Studio 6.0 as it waits for the next available opportunity in the new millennium? infoworld.com

To: EPS who wrote (23479)	8/15/1998 10:57:00 AM
From: EPS	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42771

NT 5.0 Beta 2: Sooner, not later? By Bob Trott InfoWorld Electric Posted at 5:00 PM PT, Aug 14, 1998 At long last, Microsoft is ready to roll out Beta 2 of Windows NT 5.0 at a technical workshop next week in Seattle, if weekend work on the latest release candidate goes as planned, according to sources close to the company. "If what you see (at the Windows NT 5.0 Technical Workshop) isn't Beta 2, it'll be very close," one beta tester who requested anonymity said. One Microsoft official would only say that Beta 2 -- which is coming almost a year after the first test version of NT 5.0 -- will be released "this summer." However, another beta tester said the current build is not ready for Beta 2 status, and that Microsoft could use the extra time. "Although it looks similar to NT 4.0, NT 5.0 is really a completely new OS that happens to have backward compatibility with NT 4.0 and Win9x," this beta tester said. "Some of the things Microsoft has done, such as adding Device Manager, are welcome changes. But other things, such as Network Connections, are really a step backwards. And the big things Microsoft has promised -- Terminal Server services, IntelliMirror, etc. -- aren't working as advertised." Beta 2 is expected to add more of NT 5.0's Active Directory features, IntelliMirror technology providing roaming user capabilities, and Windows Terminal Server, among other features. When completed, NT 5.0 will have almost twice as many lines of code as NT 4.0. The final ship date of NT 5.0 is cloudy, and Microsoft recently added a third beta phase, which will be public. Microsoft Corp., in Redmond, Wash., is at microsoft.com. Bob Trott is a senior editor for InfoWorld. infoworld.com