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Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell

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From Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
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Subject Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell
Date Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:14:05 +0100
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On 30/04/14 10:08, K Wills wrote:

>       Calling Novell a competitor may be a bit much. I don't think it
> ever made an OS. And if I'm understanding correctly, the heart of the
> complaint is in regards to the WIN 95 OS.


Although it was a specialist (limited) OS, can you really discount Netware?

if you go back to the 90's, Netware was doing filesharing and related 
services actually extremely well - MS had no real solution and NFS was 
not very PC friendly (but did exist).

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Novell is dead. Long Live Novell Rob <meer5tt@privacy.net> - 2014-04-29 04:57 -0700
  Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-29 17:14 +0000
  Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-29 12:23 -0500
    Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2014-04-29 13:28 -0500
      Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-11-10 04:22 +0000
        Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 21:32 -0700
        Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-11-10 08:11 -0600
  Google has done what Novell couldn't.  Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2014-04-29 13:53 -0700
  Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell K Wills <compuelf@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 04:08 -0500
    Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-30 12:14 +0100
      Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2014-04-30 12:17 -0500
    Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-30 07:01 -0500

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