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Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell

From Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.misc, misc.legal
Subject Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell
Date 2014-04-30 12:14 +0100
Message-ID <tg273b-1t6.ln1@squidward.local.dionic.net> (permalink)
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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
  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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