Most of what you just said was outlined a few months ago by some SE's. Linux, Solaris, NT/2000, Web. And it is already part of I think LDAPv3 compliant or something...
Novell's vision of NDS has become a fully cross platform DS. It will not only take under it NT, and Solaris. But Linux and a few others too. The part after that is it will take over your authentication on your extranet, it will allow you to store entities in your DS that give rights to the people working over the web with your company, and identify them for you to know when they access'd and everything like another entity in your enterprise. NDS won't die, but if they can get the push to get all the other OS's tightly in place (there are platforms I missed i know but this is the basic start) then NDS will most likely step out. But Novell has openly admitted in conferences having the Regional SE's admit they are splitting it out of Netware, and making the push for NDS to be how you leverage your network.
Lets take this from reality. Im not majow Novell pusher, but you should know where your problems lie before you place blame.
Your dialog box's are a configuration issue, maybe someone could spend the time to bother to turn it off. Print jobs taking too long? Your queue is either tweaked out, or your running on a 10Mbps network and your nt3.51 would be 100Mbps, otherwise your on crack thinking 3.51 would outrun novell printing. I have run enterprises with both inside for years now, and almost NEVER have i seen a NT printjob outrun a Novell one, unless you configure the systems like MS says, oh double RAM in ours, faster CPU. Yeah then customize the reg, you might beat the printing of novell. And your internet access, unless routing directly through a specific system, your ping time would be a network configuration issue most likely, infrastructure tends to do that more then 1 server, and its a Border Manager, then its either a 486, or its not configured right.
Im not saying go buy Novell, but maybe some intelligent people reconfiguring the infrastructure and changing parameters would fix most of your issues.
P.S. Ive seen a Netware p233 with 128 MB Ram outrun a NT 3.51 PII 300 with 128 MB Ram on file and print sharing, so unless you are hopping up that NT box, there isnt a chance its stomping Novell's. Of course unless you read MS propoganda, but I would suggest looking at the configurations they list for the Novell and the NT box, usually the NT is MUCH more customized and beefed then the box MS compares with.
End result, just move to IP printing and Linux anyway, but dont lay blame when it doesnt go there.
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Most of what you just said was outlined a few months ago by some SE's. Linux, Solaris, NT/2000, Web. And it is already part of I think LDAPv3 compliant or something...
Novell's vision of NDS has become a fully cross platform DS. It will not only take under it NT, and Solaris. But Linux and a few others too. The part after that is it will take over your authentication on your extranet, it will allow you to store entities in your DS that give rights to the people working over the web with your company, and identify them for you to know when they access'd and everything like another entity in your enterprise. NDS won't die, but if they can get the push to get all the other OS's tightly in place (there are platforms I missed i know but this is the basic start) then NDS will most likely step out. But Novell has openly admitted in conferences having the Regional SE's admit they are splitting it out of Netware, and making the push for NDS to be how you leverage your network.
Lets take this from reality. Im not majow Novell pusher, but you should know where your problems lie before you place blame. Your dialog box's are a configuration issue, maybe someone could spend the time to bother to turn it off. Print jobs taking too long? Your queue is either tweaked out, or your running on a 10Mbps network and your nt3.51 would be 100Mbps, otherwise your on crack thinking 3.51 would outrun novell printing. I have run enterprises with both inside for years now, and almost NEVER have i seen a NT printjob outrun a Novell one, unless you configure the systems like MS says, oh double RAM in ours, faster CPU. Yeah then customize the reg, you might beat the printing of novell. And your internet access, unless routing directly through a specific system, your ping time would be a network configuration issue most likely, infrastructure tends to do that more then 1 server, and its a Border Manager, then its either a 486, or its not configured right. Im not saying go buy Novell, but maybe some intelligent people reconfiguring the infrastructure and changing parameters would fix most of your issues. P.S. Ive seen a Netware p233 with 128 MB Ram outrun a NT 3.51 PII 300 with 128 MB Ram on file and print sharing, so unless you are hopping up that NT box, there isnt a chance its stomping Novell's. Of course unless you read MS propoganda, but I would suggest looking at the configurations they list for the Novell and the NT box, usually the NT is MUCH more customized and beefed then the box MS compares with. End result, just move to IP printing and Linux anyway, but dont lay blame when it doesnt go there.