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From: acress@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Andy Cress)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Unix vs Novell (HA..)
Summary: Have your cake and est it too
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Date: 8 May 91 18:47:43 GMT
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In article <42078@cup.portal.com> scarroll@cup.portal.com (Scott A Carroll) writes:
>  Well this should spur a debate.  I need a little help convincing our more
>then brain dead MIS people to STAY with Unix.  Here is the problem, 3 years
>ago, when our budding (should have been killed then) MIS section decided to
>play with connectivity, they bought a copy of interactives Unix.  It was
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>of nasty user-hostile (MIS new word) Unix, bring in nice friendly Novell.
>Hell guys, we are a world wide organization!  Our orginizations prime OS is
>Unix, along with Sperrys running god knows what, IBMs running who knows what,
>and every other orphan system and OS under the sun (no pun, really!).   How
>will we communicate with them?  You have all of a sudden seen the light, you
>want connectivity with the "Big World", and a "LAN".  But your gonna dump
>the great-white-hope of open operating systems for a NOS with limited scope!?
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If they have Interactive UNIX, and they want Novell NetWare, they can have 
it without giving up the UNIX system.  Interactive sells a version of 
Novell's Portable NetWare for their UNIX.  This is a NetWare server
which runs under UNIX.  It can coexist with other UNIX Comm/LAN packages,
so you can have the UNIX system, and they can have their NetWare. 

My guess is that tis will be easier to push than trying to educate
them on the virtues of UNIX.  They will like it because it saves $$$.

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Andy Cress       acress@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM
My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my company.