Re: Which platform NT or Novell?

From: Nuno Guerreiro <nuno-v-guerreiro_at_invalid.telecom.pt>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:04:01 GMT
Message-ID: <36a44a9b.534506599@news.telecom.pt>

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:07:16 +0100, "Fegyverneki Janos" <inajf_at_interj.hu> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>My company is going to by an oracle8 server, but the platform is not
>defined yet. The possibilities are NT and Novell. The number of users are
>below
>50. I am interested what are the advantages and disadvantages of these
>platforms.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Fegyverneki Janos
>jani_at_freemail.c3.hu
>
>
>
>

Traditionally, Netware has been rated as the best OS in File, Print and Directory Services.

When used as an application server, it seems that the experiences are not as good. I read a post by a very experienced Netware CNE which stated that up to version 4.xx, it didn't provide the following:

. native SMP support
. memory protection
. virtual memory

The difficulty in writing an NLM (server-based Netware program) might have contributed to this fact.

This scenario has changed with version 5 of Netware, though. It ships with a 5-user version of Oracle 8 and it integrates well with NDS (although I've not tried it).

So, it might be worth taking a look at it now.

Hope this helps,

Nuno Guerreiro

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