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

To: Spartex who wrote (24956)	1/13/1999 2:59:00 AM
From: PJ Strifas	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42771

I just love Network World :) Actually you want to read about the second product in their list called ConfigCentral (from NetPro Computing - netpro.com). Let's you create the "perfect" server setup (in terms of NLMs versions, software updates and NIC setups) so you can deploy multiple servers faster and easier. It even lets you rollback updates across multiple servers in case a bug crops up in an update. Peter --------------------------- The top 10 of 1998 Among the best products we looked at, NetWare 5 stands out. By Lee Schlesinger, Ann Sullivan and the Network World Test Alliance Network World, 01/11/99 nwfusion.com In 1998, John Glenn returned to space, Jerry Seinfeld resumed his private life and Network World reviewed more than 140 products, 10 of which we deemed to be World Class. The 10 products that won our World Class Award, which goes to any product that scores 9 or better on our Score Card, cover a range of technologies. Many are network management products - not surprising because in response to reader demand we focus a lot of our review efforts in that area. Also among the World Class are three servers, a network modeling tool, two security products and a network operating system. Some are new, and some are new releases of existing products. After looking over this year's winners, we picked the most ambitious product with the broadest scope as our Product of the Year - NetWare 5. Product of the Year: NetWare 5 Reviewed Sept. 7 NetWare 5 includes more fundamental changes to the operating system than any previous upgrade. Among the improvements are better administrator tools and easier client connections and logon. A new file system mounts huge volumes almost instantly; and the system's complete transition to pure IP network transport works seamlessly. One caveat: The just-barely-hatched ConsoleOne management interface is slow and limited in function."Users won't see the new network protocol, memory management improvements, upgraded file system and graphical administration interface, but managers will rejoice at Novell's continued improvement of a rock-solid network operating system- James Gaskin, Network World Test Alliance