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Novell to Make Linux Robust and Reliable
An anonymous coward writes: "It seems the folks over at Novell have the answer to making the "immature" Linux OS more "robust, reliable and scaleable" according to this Computer Weekly article. We have a lot more problems to use and keep running our NetWare 5 and 6 servers at our University than we've ever had with any of our Linux servers. I can't wait for Novell to help us out here."
another take on what happened to Novell and it's good system:
They kept Novel Certified engineers prices high. They kept the net cards priced high. They kept everything as expensive as possible and pissed of everyone because for about a decade they were the only player that made sense for a lot of people, especially PC people.
SO: they set themselves up for the fall Microsoft is also trying to make.
(1) piss everyone off.
(2) cost so much that when the competition finally outprices you it's not by a little bit, $1 or $5, but really better, like 1/10 of what you charge.
But don't worry, there are always people that got so hooked they will be good customers until their machines rust.
-pyrrho
Not flamebait! Flamebait would be saying that you guys don't use FreeBSD because you're too stupid to use the text-based installer. FreeBSD is *much* better than Linux as far as stability goes. Maybe I can't use bleeding-edge hardware, etc. but my servers *never* go down, unless I issue "shutdown -h now."
Common sense is not so common.
I have to agree, Solaris(on SPARC hardware at least) is much more mature and elegant than Linux.
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BTW, the parent wasn't flaimbait
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Welcome to slashdot... Anyone that doesn't use every other line of their post to say that Linux is the perfect, be-all-end all Operating System, must be a terrorist threat! Mod them down!
The parent post is not flamebait, nor a troll... Linux does a good job, but it doesn't have the enterprise features that commercial Unix systems do.
Ironically, with all of their boasting about their support of Linux, IBM has made no attempt to give Linux those very features which their own OS (AIX) has, and IBM uses to market their systems.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
Banyan VINES (and it's related cousins StreetTalk for NT and ENS for NetWare/UNIX) was certainly way better than NetWare (even when 4.x came out) and certainly better than the re-packaged OS/2 LAN Manager, Windows NT and Domains. I started working with VINES in 1989 and even worked at Banyan Systems (now called ePresense and no longer selling actual networking products) and I can safely say that it was the best NOS around. Best direcroty service and best use of a Directory Service, not to mention the excellent protocol (that IP has now pretty much ripped off) VINES-IP. The sad part about it was that Banyan Systems never did any marketing (well not much anyway), and when they finally woke up, it was too late and Microsoft was already pushing NT with all the FUD cranked way up, and people switched like lemmings. Operation Desert Storm was fought entirely on a VINES network, and it was totally secure and used a great directory service way ahead of its time. Pity Banyan Systems gave up on its original dream and sold out to Microsoft, and turned themselves into another down and out consulting outfit. Out of the two Directory Services left out there, many speculate that one of Banyan System's founders, Jim Alchin, who is now the NT main man at Microsoft, has slowly worked all the good things about VINES and StreetTalk into Active Directory, and so now at least we get to use StreetTalk under its new name "AD". Novell, I like to say, is slowly becoming Banyanized. It is following the same death-rattle as Banyan did, but just a few years later. Didn't Novell see that Banyan already tried eDirectory (Banyan called it StreetTalk for NT and ENS for NetWare and ENS for UNIX) and nobody bought it? Is that a flame I hear coming on ... :-)