Re: [SLUG] Novell, Linux and SuSE

From: Andrew M. Hoerter (amh@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Nov 04 2003 - 21:42:46 EST


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Derek Glidden wrote:

> > My question is, why run Netware on top of Linux?

> To support the (tens of?) thousands of sites, making up at least
> hundreds of thousands of computers, if not millions, that are still
> dependent on Netware.

Exactly.

Not to mention, Novell can cease supporting active development on a
proprietary operating system of their own, and instead leverage all the
work already put into Linux. It also opens up an entire world of
possibilities for 3rd party software (apps and hardware drivers), which
previously had to be written specifically for NetWare (which is quite
unlike any UNIX variant internally).

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