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- From: rjsmith@iron.hq.aflc.af.mil (Randy Smith)
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL
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- Organization: U.S. Air Force Security Assistance Center (AFSAC)
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:19:01 GMT
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- >Does this mean that Novell is stacking up Unix against Windows NT?
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- > It may not be such a bad move to get Unix more into the mainstream. Novell
- >has more experience and greater success in moving application and os software
- >than AT&T / USL.
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- Let's look at Windows NT. Microsoft has said that NT is for high-end PCs and
- RISC-based machines, it has integrated networking support, *real* multitasking,
- and [my opinion] will be too expensive for the "common" end-user PC. So NT is
- clearly going after the PC server market where Novell has something like
- 70-80% of the market. Getting the rights to the best multitasking OS around
- that has had something like 20 years of development and who knows how many
- actual manyears of development sounds like a pretty good idea to me. Also
- NetWare 4.0 has been written in C so it's fairly portable. UNIX systems have
- been kinda shunned by the whole PC LAN office environment and this may be
- the way to bring it all together.
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- Good luck to Novell and death to Windows NT!
-
- --Randy--
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