Novel vs Novell [Was: Off Topic - Novell Contractor Needed]

[Duston, Hal]

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.