While I doubt the validity of this story, all those people who bag Novell clearly don't have a clue.
Let's look at it product by product against, say, WindoZe.
Novell runs more users, more HD space, better throughput and more services on half the processor power, and a quarter of the RAM compared to NT. I've had a Novell server running 1000 users for file and print sharing - as well as an internet proxy cache, DHCP server, and DNS - on a server with a single processor and 1 gig of RAM. try that on NT - but throw three more processors and at least 3 gig more RAM at it first.
Novell can't run console applications - but who WANTS to run applications on their server? I mean - is it really necessary for the administrator to play Solitaire on the server console? Get real. Netware will run a web server, database server, file and print - what more is a server for?
The new java console on a Novell server even eliminates most of Windows only advantage - the ability to administer the user environment from the console. This was a feature unavailable un Netware versions prior to 5 - but with ConsoleOne under NW 5, you can even do that.
And finally - NDS versus ActiveDirectory. No contest, really - NDS is scalable, available on more platforms than you can shake a stick at, including Solaris, Linux, IBM mainframes and more, and more reliable. ActiveDirectory? You're stuck with NT, folks - live with it.
IBM buying Novell may or may not be a good thing - I think probably not, because it'll submerge the creativity within Novell, and probably kill it off as IBM sucks up to Microsoft some more to get better deals on NT. I hope this story isn't true!
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A call for intervention
"We would much prefer the fairness of an American court system and a jury than a group of self-appointed zealots for Internet e-mail," Black fumed. "We would prefer to have Congress set the rules.
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Who the Ffsck do these American wankers think they are telling the rest of the world that the US court is the only way to get justice and "fairness"? Who the hell is the US congress to tell the rest of us how to live our lives, and do our business?
Regardless of the debates between MAPS and the other black holing mob, the point is that FREE CHOICE is what drives system administrators and companies to use these anti-spam methods.
Harris can go jump - and any US court that tries to tell ME to remove MAPS filtering from one of my Australian based systems will be told where to insert their heads.
I find it amusing that most of the complaining comments center around US residents complaining about how "costly" internet access is, and how they're getting ripped off.
Australians pay by the megabyte for ALL traffic, except for certain "blessed" carriers, into and out of Australia. If a web site in Australia is visited by someone from the US - we pay. If a web site in the US is visited by someone in Australia - we pay. The US giants claim to be the originating point for all the internet traffic in the world - and that's a load of the brown smelly stuff.
An 128k {2 B channels} permanent ISDN connection to the net would cost me approximately as follows from one of the cheaper providors {Optus, a subsidiary of Cable and Wireless}, based on a quote I got a couple of months ago.
ISDN line rental and call charges - $450 a month Internet data - $100 a month minimum, 18 cents per meg for data downloaded {C&WO is one of the "blessed" carriers - they don't get charged for stuff sent to the US by the parent company like everyone else does}.
So, for $550 a month I'd get about 550 meg of data downloaded to my site/server - and everything else would cost me $18 for every 100 meg.
ADSL is almost unheard of {coming RealSoonNow, according to the Telco's}, cable is only available at outrageous prices, ditto satellite.
I've been running Linux {RH 5.2, then 6.0, and now SuSE 6.4} on my Thinkpad 600E for 18 months. The Linux Laptop Page gives details of everything you need to know to get the Thinkpad working with Linux - with the exception of the dastardly inbuilt modem. I think the latest kernel's/installs actually make even that work - but it doesn't affect me because I've got a modem/LAN card in the PCMCIA slot. It's great to see IBM finally supporting Linux officially, but this isn't exactly late breaking news - it's been done.
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Let's look at it product by product against, say, WindoZe.
Novell runs more users, more HD space, better throughput and more services on half the processor power, and a quarter of the RAM compared to NT. I've had a Novell server running 1000 users for file and print sharing - as well as an internet proxy cache, DHCP server, and DNS - on a server with a single processor and 1 gig of RAM. try that on NT - but throw three more processors and at least 3 gig more RAM at it first.
Novell can't run console applications - but who WANTS to run applications on their server? I mean - is it really necessary for the administrator to play Solitaire on the server console? Get real. Netware will run a web server, database server, file and print - what more is a server for?
The new java console on a Novell server even eliminates most of Windows only advantage - the ability to administer the user environment from the console. This was a feature unavailable un Netware versions prior to 5 - but with ConsoleOne under NW 5, you can even do that.
And finally - NDS versus ActiveDirectory. No contest, really - NDS is scalable, available on more platforms than you can shake a stick at, including Solaris, Linux, IBM mainframes and more, and more reliable. ActiveDirectory? You're stuck with NT, folks - live with it.
IBM buying Novell may or may not be a good thing - I think probably not, because it'll submerge the creativity within Novell, and probably kill it off as IBM sucks up to Microsoft some more to get better deals on NT. I hope this story isn't true!
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A call for intervention
"We would much prefer the fairness of an American court system and a jury than a group of self-appointed zealots for Internet e-mail," Black fumed. "We would prefer to have Congress set the rules.
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Who the Ffsck do these American wankers think they are telling the rest of the world that the US court is the only way to get justice and "fairness"? Who the hell is the US congress to tell the rest of us how to live our lives, and do our business?
Regardless of the debates between MAPS and the other black holing mob, the point is that FREE CHOICE is what drives system administrators and companies to use these anti-spam methods.
Harris can go jump - and any US court that tries to tell ME to remove MAPS filtering from one of my Australian based systems will be told where to insert their heads.
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Australians pay by the megabyte for ALL traffic, except for certain "blessed" carriers, into and out of Australia. If a web site in Australia is visited by someone from the US - we pay. If a web site in the US is visited by someone in Australia - we pay. The US giants claim to be the originating point for all the internet traffic in the world - and that's a load of the brown smelly stuff.
An 128k {2 B channels} permanent ISDN connection to the net would cost me approximately as follows from one of the cheaper providors {Optus, a subsidiary of Cable and Wireless}, based on a quote I got a couple of months ago.
ISDN line rental and call charges - $450 a month
Internet data - $100 a month minimum, 18 cents per meg for data downloaded
{C&WO is one of the "blessed" carriers - they don't get charged for stuff sent to the US by the parent company like everyone else does}.
So, for $550 a month I'd get about 550 meg of data downloaded to my site/server - and everything else would cost me $18 for every 100 meg.
ADSL is almost unheard of {coming RealSoonNow, according to the Telco's}, cable is only available at outrageous prices, ditto satellite.
Count your blessings, America.
I've been running Linux {RH 5.2, then 6.0, and now SuSE 6.4} on my Thinkpad 600E for 18 months. The Linux Laptop Page gives details of everything you need to know to get the Thinkpad working with Linux - with the exception of the dastardly inbuilt modem. I think the latest kernel's/installs actually make even that work - but it doesn't affect me because I've got a modem/LAN card in the PCMCIA slot. It's great to see IBM finally supporting Linux officially, but this isn't exactly late breaking news - it's been done.