>
> What is the future of Novell?
 
Depends, IMHO Novell is still strong if they can shore up a few things.
Not everybody wants to buy Micrsoft and there are a *lot* more
experienced hands available for Netware.
 
> Is NT (32 bit) the way to go?
Do you really want to have to reboot the server for any change?
Netware has quite a lot of dynamic configurability.
 
Integration of Microsoft products (backoffice with "front" office) is
easier than your favorite App. tool vendor with your favorite Database
vendor (i.e. Unix style integration issues) - but your stuck with
MIcrosoft (not an "open" solution).
 
> Is it true that Novell has a scalability problem?  What is the scalability
> problem?
 
The problem: Microsoft started talking about clustering of NT servers
before Novell started talking about it with Netware.
 
NT runs on up to 4 processors, Novell does too, now, but didn't as early
as NT. Netware NDS is truely scalable, in a distributed fashion, and
provides much more than NT domains (so far).
 
If you really want scalable, use HPUX (MPE is good at this, too, but HPUX
goes further in both directions - if you count SPP Convex systems on the
high end).
 
The WWW is also scalable, due to its' distributed nature.
 
>
> Anybody have any thoughts, concerns,  or answers on this?
>
> Rick Clark
> P/A for WW&R
 
Remember, this is from the same publication that seems to have overreacted
to Proposition 3000. And, the explosion of interest in NT is truely
impressive - though, not anything like the interest in the Internet -
but we don't know what this means. Perhaps, computer managers are being
drawn toward single-vendor, integrated operating systems and databases -
like MPE, the AS/400, and NT - after too much Openness.
 
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