Off Topic - Novell Contractor Needed

[S Johnson]

Ok, well without starting a huge flame fest, let's just say, "You're wrong".  
Novell works great with windows of all varieties if you go far enough to dump 
the lousy NT and Win clients for NW.  I like NT too, we have 12 NT servers 
running at our shop (some are Win2K actually) all harmoniously intertwined 
with the Novell and the Linux and some other weird stuff.   I agree that I 
don't install any new Novell servers, but I have never found any advantage  to 
"convert" out of it.

It must be nice to be so successful that you can refuse to work on certain 
types of systems.  In the old days (the 80's) specialization would kill you.  
Now I guess it is once again the norm.

sj

>===== Original Message From "Jonathan Hutchins, Rune Webmaster" 
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>From: "Jeremy Fowler" <jeremy at microlink.net>
>To: <kclug at kclug.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 12:38
>Subject: RE: Off Topic - Novell Contractor Needed
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>
>> Ok, I was wrong. I guess there are people who do use Netware at home.
>I
>don't
>> understand why, it seems a little bit of an overkill. However, I agree
>with all
>> of you; Netware is fast, stable, and an all around great NOS.
>
>Well yeah, if you're running DOS.  It has no place in a network where
>the
>workstations are running Windows 95 or something more current.
>
>Having maintained Novell networks for three years, and having converted
>maybe 100 sites from Novell to NT, I stand firm in saying it has no
>place on
>a current production network.  Typically service calls are reduced to
>1/3 or
>fewer when Novell is eliminated.
>
>I won't even interview with a company that's running Novell servers.  If
>they didn't have the savvy to ditch them by 1998, it's a sign of severe
>myopia on the part of management, and implies other more serious
>problems in
>the workplace.
>
>
>