Clutch once again shuts down a thread where a lot of the posts pertain to something the posters don't even know about. hehe
 
bravo on that novell info.....ive worked with it some, but i did not know all that about it. thx.

Oh, umm, sorry about that . I just feel that if I let this view perpetuate without intervening, then I am contibuting to it. I am pro MS and I love the NT methodology, I just want to make sure that people reading some of these posts get a balanced view of what is going on.
 
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Of all the OS's out there its not what Id call widespread. The only place where Ive seen the box of Novell is at work, but there primarily using Macs.
Didnt mean to pass judgement, not saying its a bad OS, but its pretty much little used to my knowledge, but I see that I was wrong about that one.
It sure must have its uses, or no one would have ever used it. Especially if companies in the Forbes top 500 use it.
I guess it would depend on what you need.
Microsoft must be doing something right if they have a good hold on the OS market.
Id never want to see just a Windows based environment, or just a Mac one, or a Linux one. There needs to be competition among the OS platforms, or their would be total world tion by one.
 
Thanx for the info, clutch.

IT companies make money off of selling to other companies and corporations, that's why you don't see it that often. Cisco is huge, but you don't see a Cisco router or PIX in everybody's home, do you? The only reason most people even know Cisco exists is because of their marketing and their sheer size.
 
You wont see Novell on small LANs, (which used to be the domain of LANTASTIC, but you probably never heard of them either) but rather large corporate networks. I met this admin for Jockey International (yes, the underwear company) and they have 700+ users at this one facility. They have 25 NT servers for file sharing, exchange and such, and one Novell 5 server for file sharing to the whole domain. This is the one that they haven't rebooted in the last two years. This is why nobody wants to upgrade, and hence no more money for Novell.
 
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clutch

Oh, and to all the Linux fans out there, you are going to love this. I got it in an email bulletin.
 
 
"Emergent virus can infect Windows, Linux"
The mutation of emerging viruses continues to alarm security experts, following the detection of a two-faced villain that can infect both Windows and Linux computers. Dubbed W32.Winux, the virus has no destructive payload, and no companies have reported being infected. Nonetheless, security experts are disturbed by the successful creation of a multiple-environment worm. W32.Winux infects executable programs that run on either Windows 95/98/NT/Me/2000 or the many Linux variations. Once activated, the virus automatically searches for all nearby Windows or Linux applications of at least 100K bytes in size, which it then proceeds to infect.
SOURCE: Reuters http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5329436.html?tag=mn_hd
 
 
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clutch

Well, that explains why MS makes all the money--have an OS with one problem that wont be fixed until the next release.
 
Oh goody, a mulitple OS virus. I want my Linux AV right now.