Comments on: No More Novell?

By: Dave Farquhar

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:39:53 +0000

Have you heard the story of the phantom Netware server? The server actually got walled in, ran that way for years, and they found it when they went to do some work on that wall.

I never worked in a Netware shop but I understand the appeal. For years and years I was in charge of patching Microsoft servers, which basically meant I was a professional rebooter. I got really good at minimizing the impact of that, but I don’t think that job title even exists in Netware-land, given some of the ridiculous uptime stats you hear getting thrown around. Like 1,200 days.

By: Mom

Mom — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:38:03 +0000

The IT manager at my old school is a die-hard Novell guy, and they will probably use it til he retires. He believes it keeps us from getting viruses and problems better than running Microsoft. His time is running out!!

By: icbrkr

icbrkr — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:04:46 +0000

Novell stuck around with us until 2001 as a printer protocol and then during the great XP rollout, it was retired.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:46:04 +0000

That’s my intro to networking too. Novell 3.11 3.12.
Played Doom 1 will null modem then a parallel connection. Had a very similar setup for my Novell server, 386 500 Meg drive. Learned Novell to play Doom. :)

By: Delf Meek

Delf Meek — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:29:31 +0000

I cut my teeth on Novell Netware 4 and 5, Netware Directory Services… It was great stuff then. And then came Microsoft Active Directory/Windows 2000 and Netware was history. Somewhere, in my dingy home office, I have a Netware 5 study guide….