Novel vs Novell [Was: Off Topic - Novell Contractor Needed]
Duston, Hal
hdusto01 at sprintspectrum.com
Thu Mar 22 17:37:31 CST 2001
Hrmm, I think Linux is a pretty novel OS. :P
/me runs. "Putting out fire with gasoline" -- David Bowie.
Hal
Jonathan [hutchins at opus1.com] wrote:
--SNIP--
> Well, if three years of support experience, and 100
> conversions in which problems were reduced or eliminated
> isn't experience and reason, what do you want? Something
> that agrees with your own prejudice, supported by abstract
> papers written by Novel supporters?
>
> > I could give you a hundred reasons why NT falls
> > short in comparison to NetWare...
>
> In theory. In field practice, it didn't keep up with NT, and
> after 4.0 came out it never caught up.
>
> Why do you think it's stock is in the toilet, and it's market
> share isstarting to make MacOS look popular? It's because
> it's not a workable product in most environments.
>
> You can cite all sorts of articles and press releases that
> say how great it is, but the fact is that corporate America
> has found the same thing I found in direct field experience:
> Novel just doesn't work in a modern environment.
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