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From: jamesp@world.std.com (james M peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Novell Certfication (hardware)
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.183900.22664@world.std.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 18:39:00 GMT
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Well----Novell certified hardware means that it runs netware w/o anything
really weird happening.  does it run it well? Maybe.

As an alternative (my process) is to get a written guarantee from the
vendor that the server you are buying will run netware and not do
weird things.  I.E. "We guarantee that computer X is 100% compatable
with netware versions a,b,c (and VAP..NLM...).  If customer finds this 
is not the case we will refund/replace... the machine with (an ALR or what
ever - maybe a compaq)"

This seems to work fairly well.  If your vendor sez that its 100% compatable
but wont put it in writing then he does not believe in his product.

jamesp@world.std.com

PS. Northgate systems are good servers, compuadd good wks (iffy servers),
    ALR & Hertz (intel sys) good servers too. IBM PS/2 aaahhhhhhhhh......