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From: mrichey@orion.cf.uci.edu (Mike Richey)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: ELS II/non-ded ctrl-alt-del at server/workstation
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Date: 19 Sep 89 17:30:10 GMT
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In article <8111@megatest.UUCP> palowoda@megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes:

>  Why does Novell sell a non-dedicated mode and everyone complains it
>  works so poorly and pawns it off on bad marketing hype. I suspect 
Novell prouced Non dedicated because their marketing department saw an 
avenue for sales. It was marketing. Apparently Novell did not see the 
problems that may have and have come up.

>  to a unix network I have had 98% uptime. I gave up on novell to
>  many times reformating disk because some software package was not
>  "net aware" and trashed the file system.

I've never had Netware trash because a program was not Netware aware. But this
is my experience. I managed four Novel file servers at my previous place of 
employment. I had 100% uptime on three servers for fourteen months til I left.
(read, NO DOWN time, except for standard maintenace)

The fourth was a different story. This wasn't the fault of Netware, but hard-
ware faults. I'm not advocating that Netware is flawless. Like I said, this is
my experience.

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