CRAZY pricing!

D

Dale

Are any NetWare versions still supported? I just threw out my NetWare
server a few months ago because I just didn't see it as being relevant any
more. Which is too bad. I would much rather use NetWare than Windows
servers were it up to me.

Dale
 
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BSchnur

Are any NetWare versions still supported? I just threw out my NetWare
server a few months ago because I just didn't see it as being relevant any
more. Which is too bad. I would much rather use NetWare than Windows
servers were it up to me.

Yes -- NW 6.5 is still being sold and supported. But Novell purchased
SuSE and now is running to Linux server and workstation iterations.
Changes their entire business model.
 
D

Dale

Yeah, that's what I heard. It sucks, too. Another great and competitive
product swallowed by the giant.
 
R

Richard Urban

Netware's day came and went. There were better choices around apparently.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



Dale said:
Yeah, that's what I heard. It sucks, too. Another great and competitive
product swallowed by the giant.
 
B

BSchnur

Netware's day came and went. There were better choices around apparently.More a matter of better marketing. From my vantage point SBS 2003 from
Microsoft and SBS 6.5/6.6 from Novell favored Novell in terms of
product suite and performance, and price. But Novell really didn't
'get it' regarding how to market the product -- that has always been an
issue.

So it wasn't so much a case of better choices, but rather that
Microsoft has MUCH better marketing skills and resources. In the
market, it isn't the best product that 'wins', all it takes is a 'good
enough' product with superior marketing.

Heck, Quattro Pro for a long time was a better product than Lotus 123
in the day and certainly the early iterations of Excel, but again,
Excel was 'good enough' and had the giant behind it.
 
R

Richard Urban

Same thing happened to OS/2.

I still think it was the most superior operating system I have ever used. It
was a bullet proof tank and you couldn't kill it. It was also the "best"
multi-tasking O/S ever made.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 

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