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Novell execs are basically saying that purchase of Linux company Ximian means that NetWare is a dead product<\/a>. While they expect to support it and see its use for years to come, new development will stop, and existing services and software (eDirectory, GroupWise) will become Linux products.<\/p>\n

This is probably a smart move on Novell’s part. Due to chronic, decades-long mismanagement of their flagship NOS, they’ve basically given the market away to Micro$oft. (Coincidentally, yesterday we received a briefing from our server ops guy about the planned office migration from NetWare and NDS over to NT and AD.) <\/p>\n

Still, NetWare (like VM\/SP) will always have a place in my heart. It’s the NOS I grew up with, technically, cutting my teeth on its management from v3 to v5. It sort of feels like an auto manufacturer is discontinuing a particular model line, the one I first bought.<\/p>\n

Ah, well. Time marches on (and usually to Redmond’s beat). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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