I am only 38 and have a bad case of Tinnitus. For those lucky bastards who don't---look it up and take very seriously the amount of noise you get. I work downtown in a LARGE city and I always put in earplugs when I am walking to lunch for an hour or so. I started doing that after taking a decibel meter outside with me one day. Amazing how loud life is now.
netware is crap it cant sustain our collage network without crashing at least onec a day. we have 5 or six servers serviceing 400 pcs at once and some times
You are a complete idiot then. I have over 100 Netware 6.0 and 6.5 servers and they only time they go down is when I want to patch for functionality. We have about 80,000 users as well.
That you said MAD is faster and more efficient than eDirectory definitely makes me think your an idiot.
I can never understand why people think no one uses Novell anymore. We use Novell for everything for our 80,000 students. You cannot beat Netware for file/print. We use a combination of Groupwise and Netmail. Of course all identities are kept in eDirectory---the most solid, robust directory out there. Identity Manager is used to sync all systems.
You can pretty much count on all education and government being Novell or very heavily entrenched in it. If you think no one uses Novell, you are seriously out of the loop or too narrow focused.
We have a fairly sizeable eDirectory tree of about 100,000 users. We have hundreds of Netware servers. We use Identity Manager(dirxml) extensively. Our entire LDAP authentication runs on eDirectory. I know many other VERY large companies such as ours where Novell plays a very important role and where eDirectory is the central authentication/idenitity scheme. Sure we have some Windows application servers---who doesnt. But I always get amazed at those who predict the death of Novell---because usually those are the same people who have never used any Novell products in their life. Believe me Novell is dominate in every Fortune 100 company out there. They are going nowhere.
Those of you like me who have been Novell shops since the dawn of time, do remember how Microsoft screwed Novell so many times years ago. Purposely putting code in NT support packs to slow down the Netware client(has been documented), amongst many other things. I am glad Novell will finally see their vengeance with these 2 lawsuits. And of course we have NLD, groupwise for linux is taking off, and Netware for Linux due in February.
I was one of the first 200 people(got a nice leather jacket as a gift) to receive Novell's CDE Certification. There were 2 written tests along with a 2 hour practicum in which you remote into a 5 server-farm setup at Novell and fix a lot of broken shit(probably left over by an MCNE). These lab tests definitely seperate the men from the boys. I had NDS experience since it came out with Novell v4 and I can tell you no matter how many books you read on NDS if you did not have experience there is no way you could have passed. The servers and NDS are messed up in such a way that fixing one problem may make you unable to fix the remaining--so you really had to know what was going on, and which problem to tackle first.
If you only see a handful you are obviously not looking around enough. Novell is more pervasive than anyone on here thinks. Universities, school systems, governments primarily use Netware. I do not think you realize how pervasive eDirectory and Groupwise are as well. Novell is not dead and is not dying, I am not sure why all the/. think Novell is dead. As I said walk into any University or School system.
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I am only 38 and have a bad case of Tinnitus. For those lucky bastards who don't---look it up and take very seriously the amount of noise you get. I work downtown in a LARGE city and I always put in earplugs when I am walking to lunch for an hour or so. I started doing that after taking a decibel meter outside with me one day. Amazing how loud life is now.
netware is crap it cant sustain our collage network without crashing at least onec a day. we have 5 or six servers serviceing 400 pcs at once and some times You are a complete idiot then. I have over 100 Netware 6.0 and 6.5 servers and they only time they go down is when I want to patch for functionality. We have about 80,000 users as well. That you said MAD is faster and more efficient than eDirectory definitely makes me think your an idiot.
I can never understand why people think no one uses Novell anymore. We use Novell for everything for our 80,000 students. You cannot beat Netware for file/print. We use a combination of Groupwise and Netmail. Of course all identities are kept in eDirectory---the most solid, robust directory out there. Identity Manager is used to sync all systems.
You can pretty much count on all education and government being Novell or very heavily entrenched in it. If you think no one uses Novell, you are seriously out of the loop or too narrow focused.
We have a fairly sizeable eDirectory tree of about 100,000 users. We have hundreds of Netware servers. We use Identity Manager(dirxml) extensively. Our entire LDAP authentication runs on eDirectory. I know many other VERY large companies such as ours where Novell plays a very important role and where eDirectory is the central authentication/idenitity scheme. Sure we have some Windows application servers---who doesnt. But I always get amazed at those who predict the death of Novell---because usually those are the same people who have never used any Novell products in their life. Believe me Novell is dominate in every Fortune 100 company out there. They are going nowhere.
Those of you like me who have been Novell shops since the dawn of time, do remember how Microsoft screwed Novell so many times years ago. Purposely putting code in NT support packs to slow down the Netware client(has been documented), amongst many other things. I am glad Novell will finally see their vengeance with these 2 lawsuits. And of course we have NLD, groupwise for linux is taking off, and Netware for Linux due in February.
I was one of the first 200 people(got a nice leather jacket as a gift) to receive Novell's CDE Certification. There were 2 written tests along with a 2 hour practicum in which you remote into a 5 server-farm setup at Novell and fix a lot of broken shit(probably left over by an MCNE). These lab tests definitely seperate the men from the boys. I had NDS experience since it came out with Novell v4 and I can tell you no matter how many books you read on NDS if you did not have experience there is no way you could have passed. The servers and NDS are messed up in such a way that fixing one problem may make you unable to fix the remaining--so you really had to know what was going on, and which problem to tackle first.
If you only see a handful you are obviously not looking around enough. Novell is more pervasive than anyone on here thinks. Universities, school systems, governments primarily use Netware. I do not think you realize how pervasive eDirectory and Groupwise are as well. Novell is not dead and is not dying, I am not sure why all the /. think Novell is dead. As I said walk into any University or School system.
The hell with credit cards. Am I going to get the spice channel tonight?