Netware 6

[cj92713696]

What do you think of Novell at this point? Do you think eDirectory will save the company realistically?

 

[MDonato]

Hmmm...... I've always thought very highly of Novell's ability to put out a quality product, I can't say the same about their ability to market that product. I thought they were making a fairly good comeback in the last 2 years with ZEN, ICS, and a few of the other platform independent apps, but I'm not quite sure what has happened in the last couple of months. I hope they get things turned around and going in the right direction. I still like their products, but they sure don't make it easy to sell against the marketing machine of Microsoft. I find it hard to always have to defend their products and their company. I hope this made sense, as you can probably gather, I am just disappointed in their marketing efforts.

-Mike
Michael A. Dontato MCNE, MCSE, CCA
mdonato@site-technologies.com

http://www.site-technologies.com

 

[cj92713696]

I'm a Netware 4.11, & 5 CNE so I can honestly say I like Novell and their product base. I've concentrated in a different area the last 8 months away from Novell and I've seen their shares slip quite a bit since then. I'm a little concerned w/Netware 6 since it's not really anything different than Netware 5 (w/a few add-ons)

 

[andrew74]

Went to the Netware 6 Demo yesterday, and despite all the obvious hype, NW6 looks a massive improvement on 5.1 (for me and my users - Ifolder and Iprint are going to revolutionise our business (if they are as reliable as the over enthusiastic demonstrator told me yesterday!!)

 

[MDonato]

That's great to hear. I've been playing with the demo for a few weels, and type "cd\" ENTER
type "purge /a" ENTER
I'm very impressed. Even more so than I was from 4.x to 5.x, which as we know was a major improvement in itself. I just hope the community rallies behind Novell and that I won't have to try and defend it in shops that have always been Novell.

-Mike Michael A. Dontato MCNE, MCSE, CCA
mdonato@site-technologies.com

http://www.site-technologies.com

 

[andrew74]

the other think that stuck in my mind was Single Sign-on - They'd estimated that the average user spends 44 hours a year logging onto their computer, which taking away weekends, bank holidays etc is about 12 minutes a day unproductive time. Single Sign on eliminates that so you get an extra working week out of each staff member - certain managers round me had to be revived and spent the afternoon trying to work out how much their company had actually wasted on such a simple thing