Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!paul From: paul@actrix.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Novell Portable Netware vs. LM/X on RISC Platforms? Message-ID: <1990Nov20.083533.5382@actrix.co.nz> Date: 20 Nov 90 08:35:33 GMT References: <1990Nov9.234218.361@npd.Novell.COM> <7199@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU> Organization: Actrix Information Exchange, Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 21 Comment-To: martino@logitek.co.uk In article martino@logitek.co.uk (Martin O'Nions) writes: > I like NetWare as a PC LAN, and had high hopes for Portable NetWare, but > for the moment I'm waiting for SCO to release LM/X Server as the neatest > solution on the block. Why are you waiting? WHy not just walk into Hewlett-Packard, and buy their version of LM/X for SCO. Works just fine. > I think that it is going to take some time, and a lot of feedback from > the OEMs to make PN an attractive choice where NetWare is not already part > of the system, but I'm looking forward to seeing the end product! > HP also have both PN and LM/X for their RISC systems, and LM/X for their 680x0 and 80[34]86 platforms, using HP-UX and SCO UNIX. > (In the absence of a disclaimer on the .signature, the above should NOT > be taken as representing the views of any Logitek Group company) I guess that's why you don't buy from HP. -- Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.gen.nz