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Article #130993Re: NOVELL AND NETWORKING
From: m... Matthew Roderick
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:08
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:08
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In article <3gradh$s...@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw> cp7...@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Wei-chen Huang) writes: >Tom Boismier, MPH (t...@mailgw-vtc.oto.med.umich.edu) wrote: >: In article <3gpejd$e...@interport.net> mdre...@interport.net (Michael Dreyfus) writes: >: >I am doing research into Novell. In your opinion, will Windows 95 present a >: >real threat to Novell? Is Novell positioned well for the next generation of >: >networking products? Who is their major competitor? Do you have any >: >information on their groupware and e-mail products? >: No, because WIN 95 is a desktop operating system, not a network operating >: system. WIN-NT is a threat, MicroSoft is their major competitor, call Novell. >Win95 could be a file server, can send and receive mail, is a > peer-to-peer networking OS, just like winnt. >In the recently Byte magazine, there is a good article about Novell's future. Well you could say that about Windows for Workgroups, but no many people use it as such. Maybe IF Win95 was pre-emptive multitasking this would be workable. (ie all the beta's on Win95 I've seen you can't have a 'dir /s' scrolling in a dos box while doing something else) Cheers Matt -- Matthew Roderick m...@dsbc.icl.co.uk ICL, Lovelace Rd, Bracknell, Berks. RG12 8SN -- +44 �0�1344 473707 ------ Comments could not be mine if they ain't PGP signed ! ------
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.misc,bit.listserv.novell,comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip,comp.sys.novell,fido.novell,il.novell,pl.comp.sys.novell,swnet.lans.novell,tw.bbs.comp.network,tw.bbs.comp.novell,umich.novell,vmsnet.networks.misc Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!dearn!barilvm!uunet!in1.uu.net!pipex!dsbc.icl.co.uk!mat From: m...@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Matthew Roderick) Subject: Re: NOVELL AND NETWORKING Message-ID: <D4029n.8Kp@dsbc.icl.co.uk> Organization: International Computers Limited References: <3gpejd$ev1@interport.net> <teb.308.2F30DF19@mailgw-vtc.oto.med.umich.edu> <3gradh$suq@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:08:10 GMT Lines: 29 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit