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Tom Boismier, MPH (t...@mailgw-vtc.oto.med.umich.edu) wrote:
: In article <3gpejd$e...@interport.net> mdre...@interport.net (Michael Dreyfus) writes:
: >From: mdre...@interport.net (Michael Dreyfus)
: >Subject: NOVELL AND NETWORKING
: >Date: 2 Feb 1995 02:04:29 GMT

: >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?

Ignoring win '95 ('96?-whenever) and considering NT and/or Windows for
Workgroups- Novell can connect not only Macs and PC"s, but very old PC's.
Novell  may now require a 386 or better for a file server, but you can
still attach an AT or even an old 8088 to a Novell net and do useful work.

In locations such as ours where we cannot justify the capital expense of
new hardware merely to run newer software (after all, 90% of the business
users of word processing software could survive with older versions of
Word Perfect or even Word Star) they'll be building ski resorts in Hell
before we are all Windows compatible.  But we have wire services available
in the control rooms, offices and studios which are captured to the net
via 8088 computers, and practically all of our day-to-day working software
will run on an 8088 although mostly we have AT's.  Remote printers on the
net could run on XT's as well.

Obsolete doesn't mean broken.  And when I tell the boss "we need" I'd damn
well better mean "need" and not "I want" or "it'd be neat"!

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else in their right mind, for that matter.

Fred Dabney/ KRWG Radio/ New Mexico State University  (fda...@nmsu.edu)
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