Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!XLNVAX!BRIAN From: brian@XLNVAX.EXCELAN.COM (Brian Meek) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell Subject: Re: NOVELL NETWARE vs BANYAN VINES Message-ID: <9002012105.AA21012@samvax.excelan.com> Date: 1 Feb 90 20:05:41 GMT Sender: Novell LAN Interest Group Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group Lines: 40 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL14] X-To: Novell LAN Interest Group In-Reply-To: <9002011839.AA29455@excelan.com>; from "<@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU:NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>" at Feb 1, 90 11:36 am [stuff deleted] > We recently were paid a visit from NOVELL. > They gave a presentation of PORTABLE NETWARE and 386. I liked the long term > direction they have but when asking about TCP/IP they answered with OSI. I > have needs now that can't always wait for OSI to become a standard. So for > now we are with NETWARE 286. This summer we are planning to upgrade to some > 386 server software. Which??? I can't say at this point. I want to see more > on NOVELL's new naming service just announced. As for the recent discussion > about dumping one vendor for another, we've done it many times with word > processors so why not a NOS. > > If you would like direct contacts at Banyan you can mail me directly, as > this probably is not the proper place. > > Jim Kiser > SUNY @ Buffalo > IN%"INDJPK@UBVMSC.CC.BUFFALO.EDU" Our (Novell's) purchase of Excelan last year emphasizes to me that we are committed to both TCP/IP and OSI technologies as reality dictates. I'm sorry the folks who visited you recently gave you the impression that our current emphasis is OSI _rather_ than TCP/IP. The consensus here at Novell, San Jose's marketing office is that TCP/IP is very critical to today's market and that it will continue to be critical in the future even as we see OSI implemented on a wider scale (personally, I'd wager that all of our direct descendants and likely theirs as well could make a career in the TCP/IP networking arena). But rather than fuel that popular debate on this forum, I'll close by saying that engineering projects are currently underway to add both technologies to the NetWare product line in a big, big way. In fact, most all of the Excelan and Kinetics products that are designed to integrate TCP/IP and NetWare are now selling better than ever under the Novell label. brian ____________________________________________________________________________ Brian Meek Novell - 2180 Fortune Dr. San Jose, CA 95131 Internet Mail: brian@novell.COM Phone: (408) 473-8375 CompuServe: 76702,346 FAX: (408) 433-0775 - Opinions expressed are my own, not necessarily Novell's... etc. -