NETWARE 6 PATCH
I take it down to patch it but otherwise I completely forget that it’s there. I’ve never had a dropped-session problem with it. It serves about 500-600 users and acheives *months* of uptime with ease. I’m serving it from a single-CPU NetWare 5.1 box and using NetWare Enterprise Web Server (formerly known as Netscape Enterprise). I host a GroupWise WebAccess server which also hosts SMTP, POP3, is a primary GW server and hosts document libraries as well. The command line and its curses-like configuration system pre-5.x did the job just fine.Īnd yes, Bas, the BSD ports system is pretty nice but not something which would compel me to migrate our network to *BSD. On top of that its server-side GUI tools are downright UGLY and non-intuitive. It is not quite as stable as many Unixes, especially when you’re loading and unloading NLM’s all the time (assuming, of course, you don’t opt to load them in protected memory) but this is worth the tradeoff. Downtime is rare during production hours. It has more than enough processor power and resources to handle other services such as Zenworks and document libraries once they are implemented. The Netware 5.1 file server at the plant i’m working at acts as a file server, print server, E-mail server and Groupwise web access server servicing about 100 workstations … and our Uniprocessor Athlon 1.2 GHz, 1 GB DDR workstation is BORED. We run Netware for pretty much everything except serving applications… and on a handful of servers. MySQL, Postgres, and other killer open-source solutions will thrive on this platform for years to come. Hell they are writing NEW open standards all the time and contributing to the community – something that our friends in Redmond certainly would never do.Īpache on NetWare is an excellent example of how it *can* be a great development platform. Novell has the right idea here, they are gearing more and more of their entire product line to proven open standards. It is a great performer too – nothing can touch it for file-serving speed. I’ve deployed NetWare boxes which support many hundreds of concurrent users on a *single* machine, which can easily attain uptimes which are measured in _years_. ZENWorks leverages NDS to provide an amazing administrator:user ratio. NDS is massively powerful – Novell has owned network management since the 4x days because of it, and there is no end in sight. No UNIX can compare to NetWare for file and print services, nor for GroupWare, nor for cross-enterprise management capabilities. Both have a place in an enterprise, as they have different strengths. I’ve been deploying and supporting NetWare for about thirteen years, I’ve also been deploying and supporting various Nix’s for about six years.
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