In addition to my fortnightly visit to the pages of this august journal, I also supply Network World Fusion with semiweekly newsletters in three different areas. Two of those deal with NetWare and ...

Now that Windows 2000 appears to be gaining momentum among the Windows NT faithful, Microsoft Corp.’s nascent operating system is getting a hard look from another constituency: NetWare users. Whether ...

I think NetWare is going to make a comeback. No! Stop laughing. I'm serious! Let me make myself perfectly clear. NetWare is not going to come back and sweep Windows 2000 and Linux off servers and ...

Major releases of operating systems such as Novell Inc.’s NetWare or Microsoft Corp.’s Windows traditionally have featured major architecture changes that challenged the ability of IT staff to adapt ...

The move from Netware 3.x with the Bindery to Netware 4.x with NDS was different enough to amount to a conversion rather than an upgrade. This opened Novell’s customers to other alternatives. Whatever ...

With NetWare, Novell essentially created corporate PC networking. The years may have dulled some of this pioneer product's luster as it ceded its dominant position to Windows, Unix, and, most recently ...

A month ago, I told what I considered to be the sad story of the U.K.’s University of Coventry switching from NetWare to Windows. My thoughts were based on a news story I’d read in a U.K. publication ...

Does anyone have powerful opinions about this? I'm office manager-ing at a small (8 employees) office, we need to do a reasonable amount of file sharing with some large-ish (several mb) files, some ...

To migrate or not to migrate? That is the question facing NetWare administrators, as IT departments begin planning their first major upgrades since overhauling their systems for Y2K. The message from ...

In the not-too-distant past, network operating systems (NOS) pretty much meant one thing: a Novell NetWare server for managing files and printers on a local area network. For some government agencies, ...

coverage from the Linux gathering. SAN FRANCISCO--A day after networking-software maker Novell announced that it had bought Ximian, a firm that helps businesses adopt Linux on the desktop, Novell ...

Novell, the eBusiness solutions and Net services folks, say that Novell NetWare 6 has arrived. NetWare 6 is the latest version of the platform for delivering Net services across all types of networks, ...