I have the Linux flavor of OES running right here right now on my test network and its fantastic and does everything Netware 6.5 did plus a lot more.Īs for Groupwise, relax it isn’t going anywhere.
Everything that is Netware has been ported to Linux. Yes this is the last revision of Netware kernel, but so what…seriously. OES comes in 2 flavors, (Netware 7 and SLES9 based), and both can do the exact same thing. I can tell you that this guy is way off his rocker. I work very closely with Novell, run a Novell oriented network, and have close friends that are Novell Gold resellers.
So Netware is their ‘only’ product? Yeah, let’s put down eDirectory in favor of OpenLDAP or Active Directory! (sad, SAD directory services in comparison) Let’s use read-write-execute-user-group-world permissions instead of the fine-grained file and directory permissions featured in Netware since the beginning! Or compression! Who needs compression! Disk space is cheap! (yeah, RIGHT!) And nobody could EVER POSSIBLY find a use for iPrint or iFolder! Sort of like watching Jerry Rice get traded to the Seatle Seahawks for a 7th round pick. Sad seeing them latch onto the Linux chain. But time to put Novell down in my opinion. I still have a place in my heart for Netware and my CNE certificate will always remind me of the years BL (Before Linux) and how fast the ‘norm’ can change. Oh, and there is nothing wrong with IPX on internal networks. IP was supported in older versions of Netware. They stuck with IPX too long as well and by time they went to TCP/IP taking the time to migrate to it brought up questions of why not just use something else at this point (windows, linux).
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