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From: oliveau@valhalla.cs.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Novell vs. Banyan (and others)
Keywords: Neophyte, Novell, Banyan
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Date: 22 May 89 08:00:58 GMT
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Reply-To: oliveau@CS.UCLA.EDU (Gregory V. Oliveau)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science
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It's pretty hard to get straight answers from LAN vendors, so I thought
this group might help.  What are the relative merits of Banyan and 
Novell?  What are the good and bad points of each?  My company's needs
are to connect 16+ 386 machines (PS/2 and others) together for FAST
data transfer.  A central file server is not really desired, but the
ability to "login" to another person's computer and grab or send
data from/to it are important.  All of the other standard LAN exuses
(printer sharing, etc) are there too.  Most vendors give examples of
their nets in document-type environments, but not in major software
development environments (like mine).  

We also want to get our customers (airlines) hooked up somehow -
I know Banyan has a global naming scheme, but is that really that
important?

Please send replies to the newsgroup, or to me directly.  Or call
me at (213) 820-4616 x7788.

Thanks in advance,

			Greg.