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Novell Completes Sale

Posted by samzenpus on from the so-long dept.

symbolset writes "Today Novell completed its sale to Attachmate. The company will be a wholly owned subsidiary and be delisted from the stock exchange. Novell was once a dominant player in network software, and its passing signals the end of an era."

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  1. Final Abend by nbvb · · Score: 5, Funny

    UNLOAD NOVELL.NLM

    System halted Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:30:00 pm EDT

      Abend: Page Fault Processor Exception (Error code 00000002)
              OS version: Novell NetWare 4.10 November 8, 1994
            Running Process: SCRSAVER.NLM
              Stack: AC 1F 65 01 E7 66 03 F1 50 CA 65 01 03 00 00 00
                              D0 1F 65 01 09 00 00 00 B0 81 01 F9 54 CE 65 01
                            39 67 03 F1 0B CB 65 01 B4 D0 65 01 B0 81 01 F9
        Press "Y" to copy diagnostic image to disk.
        Otherwise press "X" to exit.

  2. another ms partner.. by Jeek+Elemental · · Score: 5, Informative

    will meet you all here again when its Nokias turn

  3. Re:So Long Novell by bratloaf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I recently got called in by a client to "help out a relative with their server". A smallish family business at least three generations deep (selling and maintaining farm equipment). When I arrived I was greeted with a lot of questions - about if I could possibly help them move their office to a smaller space down the road. They were very concerned about their server, because a bigger local consulting company had told them it would cost $4000 to move it to a new office.

    I took a look, and found a pristine (c) 1992 DEC server (x86) running Netware 3.1 with two software mirrored SCSI drives. 10-base-T, and an old "concentrator". Heheh...

    Workstations were IBM PCs (the old style) with Novell ethernet network cards.

    I backed up their entire server (SYS vol and DATA vol) to my FLASH DRIVE. Did some testing offline to be sure their (c)1994 accounting software could be made to run independently of the server if needed, and moved their stuff the next weekend. The server had been up for 2664 days. Uneventful move. Server is still up. We plan to replace it with a small SAN sometime this summer. That thing had been running 24/7 with only a few reboots due to power loss since 1992. This just happened a month or two ago. (And no, no one had ever applied the Y2K fixes to it...)

    Crazy reliable.