"Throughout the course of this Evaluation Guide, we've sought to inform you about the features, functions, and performance of NetWare 4.1, especially as it compares to other commercially available network operating systems. Along the way we hope you've come to view NetWare 4.1 as the right solution for your NOS needs.
Novell's leadership in the NOS marketplace reflects over a decade of solid experience. With NetWare 4.1, Novell remains a leader, offering more capability, functionality, and performance than any other NOS. In particular NetWare 4.1 supplies: Solid Core Services: NetWare 4.1's built-in file, print, directory, integrated messaging, network management, multiprotocol routing, and security services offer more basic functionality, better manageability, and more reliability than any other NOS.
Unmatched Distributed Service Capabilities: NetWare Directory Services turn the network into a single consistent system readily intelligible and available to end users and administrators alike.
Easy Installation, Use and Administration: NetWare 4.1 has altogether simplified networking from inception to everyday use.
Increased Productivity and Reduced Costs: NetWare 4.1's graphical administration utilities, NDS, and increased hardware utilization let it provide significant savings in hardware costs, and in administrative and end user time. It can help to tame the biggest components of network ownership - human costs.
Broad Applicability: NetWare 4.1 has been designed to service small- and medium-sized organizations as well as large ones, with a variety of installation and administration shortcuts and simplifications.
Wide Selection of Enhanced Services: Because of the broad range of add-on offerings currently available for NetWare 4.1 today, both from Novell and third parties, NetWare 4.1 offers more potential functionality than any other NOS.
Platform for the Future
NetWare 4.1's collection of capabilities and services make it the NOS of the future that's available today!
We hope you've found this Evaluation Guide to be useful and informative. Based on our analysis of the competition and our own testing, Novell firmly believes that NetWare 4.1 represents the state of the art in NOS technology and capability.
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