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From: ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: Re: Replacing Novell Netware with NFS
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Date: 1 May 91 00:36:47 GMT
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In article <24496@well.sf.ca.us> nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane) writes:
>
>Does anyone have any info on the company with the best licensing policy
>for PC-NFS?  I'm trying to replace Novell Netware by "hiding" unix
>boxes as PC network servers - however, the cost advantage I thought
>was there is not with PC-NFS costing $205.00 per PC.  Any public
>domain implementations would be great - the product only has to be
>able to make a Unix directory appear as a virtual dos drive (E: or
>whatever) and do dos print services through the Unix box.  
>Caveat:  These people don't want to ever see Unix...(except the system
>administrator) - just DOS and they want a cost advantage (or I want
>to prove that there IS a cost/performance advantage).

Beame & Whiteside has a very cheap product.

	416 648 6556

And when the day is done, administering a Unix server is far, far
easier than administering a Novell server.  You have to learn
something to get both going, but Unix admin software is way too
classy.  With Novell you're hooked to their user-friendly tools.
With Unix you can say things like

	find . `awk '{ }'` -exec

etc.

	-ans.

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Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu
                             The more things change, the more they stay insane.
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