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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).