> Enterprise management is impossible with Microsoft's domain based Windows NT networking. Microsoft Active Directory, part of the ever later Windows 2000, was supposed to fix this, but it now appears MAD may be a failure (Microsoft is already trying to sell its shortcomings as "features" and it isn't even out yet).
Oh, poor Novell. This is all before my time, but to me Novell's legacy is just "that company in the SCO vs. Novell lawsuit" and occasionally seeing IPX traffic from e.g. printers in Wireshark. It's odd to look at what could have been, from a once dominant player that's disappeared into "tech myth" now.
This really does seem to be an attempt at smiling in the face of death though -- I've never played with NetWare but it's not hard to see how Win2k would capture the market; setting up an AD domain is a click-through process on a familiar OS/GUI, why bother licensing and learning something like NetWare if Windows is good enough...
Oh, poor Novell. This is all before my time, but to me Novell's legacy is just "that company in the SCO vs. Novell lawsuit" and occasionally seeing IPX traffic from e.g. printers in Wireshark. It's odd to look at what could have been, from a once dominant player that's disappeared into "tech myth" now.
This really does seem to be an attempt at smiling in the face of death though -- I've never played with NetWare but it's not hard to see how Win2k would capture the market; setting up an AD domain is a click-through process on a familiar OS/GUI, why bother licensing and learning something like NetWare if Windows is good enough...