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Any Novell users?

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Refalm:
It's called Groupwise, not Groupware... and I can tell, because I use the programme every day at school :)

Calum:

--- Quote from: voidmain ---What is "Novell on Xwindows" and "Novell on Windows"?  From what I can tell, not one person in this thread actually understands what Novell and NetWare actually is.

Novell is a company (like Microsoft is a company) that sells a file/print server operating system called NetWare (like Windows NT Server is a file/print server operating system). Novell developed NDS (which Microsoft copied and broke and called Active Directory just to try and put Novell out of business).

There are NetWare/NDS clients that you can install on Windows and Linux desktops so they can talk to Novell servers and participate in the directory (NDS).

When I said that the NetWare setup was Xwindows based on the newer versions I was referring to the actual NetWare installation on the server (there is no Windows and no Linux on the server, only NetWare which is it's own operating system). Novell actually owned the UNIX trademark for a short amount of time and I got the impression that they actually ditched their old OS and are using UNIX as a base OS now. But I didn't mess around with the new version enough to know for sure. I think NetWare sucks as much as Windows NT/2K/XP suck to be honest.
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thank goodness! i was scared to say anything because i thought netware was its own operating system and everybody seemed to be talking about something else!
i just read in a book by R. X. Cringeley (who must be taken with many pinches of salt) that netware was developed from the ground up as a networking OS at a time when DOS was NOT trying to network at all. Also, he says netware could address 16MB of memory (if anybody actually had that much) compared with the 640k that DOS could address. Cringeley says netware took full advantage of the 286 as well, something no other OS tried to do.

I'm surprised to hear (since that's about all i know about netware) that you all think it sucks! also, i'm a little confused about how it works. Is it a server for local area networks, which requires proprietary client software? yes?   :confused:

voidmain:

--- Quote from: Refalm ---It's called Groupwise, not Groupware... and I can tell, because I use the programme every day at school :)

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[embarrassment]You are absolutely right! I've been talking so much lately about Groupware and "Kroupware" that even though I was thinking Groupwise I typed Groupware, sorry about that. Guess  I should think a little harder before *I* type next time. :)  [/embarrassment]

KernelPanic:
Hell guys, get a pen and write this in the history books. Void Main was wrong.  :D

It happens to the best of us....

Calum:
i must be great then, it happens to me all the time!  :D   :D   :D

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