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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.misc, misc.legal |
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| From | JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> |
| Subject | Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell |
| References | <ljo41m02sj4@news4.newsguy.com> <jaf1m9da51t0dproh7o5o7fec9rrabb41f@4ax.com> <tg273b-1t6.ln1@squidward.local.dionic.net> |
| Message-ID | <slrnlm2c0o.siq.jedi@nomad.mishnet> (permalink) |
| Date | 2014-04-30 12:17 -0500 |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
On 2014-04-30, Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> wrote:
> 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).
The whole "active directory" thing was done by Novell first. They also
sold an alternative to DOS. So yeah, they were pretty much direct competitors
to Microsoft in the early days.
They may have been less visible to "consumers" because pretty much anythingt
that's not a consumer toy is going to be invisible to consumers. They don't see
it, therefore it doesn't/never existed.
--
On the subject of kilobyte being "redefined" to mean 1000 bytes...
When I was a wee lad, I was taught that SI units were |||
meant to be computationally convenient rather than just / | \
arbitrarily assigned.
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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
Google has done what Novell couldn't. Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2014-04-29 13:53 -0700
Re: Google has done what Novell couldn't. "Poisoned by Win 8.1" <trigonometry1972@gmail.com> - 2014-04-29 16:34 -0700
Re: Google has done what Novell couldn't. DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-04-29 19:45 -0400
What nuclear reactor ? Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2014-04-29 19:03 -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
Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 17:05 -0700
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