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- From: an030@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Broward Horne)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.novell,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 20:34:53 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe) says:
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- >jmatrow@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM (John Matrow) writes:
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- >I'm wondering if other people could tell me what the implications
- >of this are.
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- >Does this mean that Novell is stacking up Unix against Windows NT?
- >I think a head on fight with Microsoft would be viewed very
- >negatively. Microsoft is a big company with no debt and a long
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- Everybody is missing one thing.
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- Prelude to Our Story:
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- I work with IBM Lan Server. We're considering switching to
- Novell. The major stumbling block is
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- i) Cost, although this is shrinking in importance.
- ii) Novell currently has no central management system. At
- least not that *I* would want to use.
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- Banyan ( Vines ) just went public, probably to raise funds in
- order to capitalize on Novell's central management weakness. Many
- sites have several Novell networks ( as this univerisity does )
- which can not be integrated or controlled easily.
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- So. I would view Novell's move as a counter to Banyan, not Windows NT.
- Novell is working to produce a large scale, easily integrated networking
- environment, to push onto the many small Novell networks that are
- coalescing into one large whole. Anyone seeing Banyan's latest products
- realizes that Banyan is going after some of Novell's markets.
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- How important is USL? Well, it's being evaluated at my counterpart lab
- at University of Idaho. The price sure is right, plus many of the features.
- I considering putting in a recommendation for it, but most everybody on
- the Boise State side doesn't want to hear about Unix.
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