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Novell lambastes Microsoft pricing | |
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| Time: 11:53 EST/16:53 GMT | News Source: News.com | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Novell on Monday blasted Microsoft's controversial software licensing plan and business practices, hoping to lure frustrated customers to its own products and services. In a full-page advertisement in The Wall Street Journal, Novell said that Microsoft's licensing initiative "only benefits their bottom line--and not yours." In a white paper linked to the advertisement, the company warned that Microsoft's licensing plan locked customers into expensive upgrades. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (143.166.224.132) at 9/16/2002 1:32:55 PM |
| Novell? Who's that? |
| #2 By 7390 (12.110.198.251) at 9/16/2002 2:02:30 PM |
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I think that they are making the mod chips for the xbox
or are they the car that Chevy makes (Nova)? wait I know, they are another competitor bitching because MS has innovated and has destroyed them. I recall a time when Novel's Netware was the defacto networking standard. This was around the time of windows 3.1 and 3.11. Since then they have done NOTHING. |
| #3 By 665 (66.49.20.2) at 9/16/2002 2:03:04 PM |
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"only benefits their bottom line--and not yours."
Well... isn't that kind of the point of a business, to make money? Isn't that exactly what Novell is trying doing? Maybe Novell's problem was that it wasn't trying to make money. |
| #4 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/16/2002 2:25:13 PM |
| They are the company that destroyed WordPerfect and drove me to Word! |
| #5 By 2960 (156.80.64.132) at 9/16/2002 2:27:47 PM |
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Well, if Novell wants to get business back, it has first got to fix the absolutely pathetic performance of it's Win2K/XP client. I dread even thinking about large file manipulations over the network.
TL |
| #6 By 7390 (12.110.198.251) at 9/16/2002 2:55:31 PM |
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JVM
Around the time of windows 3.1 novel was the market leader in their respective field. If they had innovated then they could have been the next MS. But clearly Netware sucks and so does/did word perfect. You can't tell me that Novel isn't their own worse enemy and now want the courts to help them out. |
| #7 By 2960 (156.80.64.132) at 9/16/2002 4:00:49 PM |
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I had to manage a small workgroup Novell Server once. Never was really qualified to do it, but I muddled through and learned enough to be effective on my own.
Then, one of the storage drives went bad and I had to replace it. My goodness, what a nightmare that was to install and config! I had to get someone to help me with that. I could not believe how many steps there were involved with a simple drive replacement under Novell. Not only that, but it had to be the most un-intuitive process I've ever seen on a computer, with 99% of it done at a cmd prompt level using character-based tools. Ugh :) TL |
| #8 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 9/16/2002 5:11:38 PM |
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JWM - Well actually Windows server isn't free. I mean you have to buy CAL's and the server product and so forth. there are some companies that tried to deploy Windows NT workstation with Netware servers.
Netware has some nice features, but it's also quirky and troublesome. It really works better to use MS clients with MS servers. I don't know if that is because MS has hid something from Novell, but I rather doubt it. Most of Netwares problems were the own creation. |
| #9 By 4209 (64.175.184.131) at 9/17/2002 8:42:31 AM |
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Capeman, I agree that Novell is a good NOS, I used to administer that as well. My personal preference is AD though. I am a fan of both, and MS did steal some of AD from NDS, the rest was from Exchange. It is all personal opionion though, I have seen both NOS's perform very well and I have seen both become total crap. So to answer your question, yes I have actually worked with Netware, and I still like AD and NT/2K Domains better. This post was edited by mctwin2kman on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 at 08:43. |
| #10 By 4209 (64.175.184.131) at 9/17/2002 11:32:32 AM |
| #18 I know what standard that they are based on I was talking of similarities between the tow and functionality. The X.500 standard does not include the features of AD or NDS. And NDS was first then AD and MS did take a lot from NDS, as well as already using LDAP and X.500 in Exchnage. They just built on that. |
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