[H-GEN] Novell and Linux

[Sandra Milne]

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Harry Phillips wrote:

> Novell networks were a dream to work on compared to MS servers. What
> really bugged me was that Novell had a much better product but MS had 
> better marketing.
> 
In Australia at least. I've downloaded some of the advertising they 
subjected the Americans to and most of it was top quality even amusing 
stuff. Novell has always been ahead in the actual product but behind in 
the marketing yes. Unfortunately because I loved my time working with a 
Novell network. Sure there are quirks and issues, but we spent a lot 
less time working on the Novell servers than we did working on the MS 
servers.

Not long before I left I setup a debian box and helped with the RH box 
on the testing network. You're not the only one who feels that they need 
linux skills with Novell any longer. I spent quite a bit of time 
training other officers and writing documentation for the zenworks 
imaging component as I was the only one there with any real linux 
experience. The only other person with any *nix experience left about a 
month ago. Hopefully everything hasn't fallen apart ;-)

Given a choice, I would take a job in an organisation that uses Novell 
servers over a job working with MS servers. In addition, Novell 
continues to commit resources to the open source community whereas MS 
seems determined to wipe us off the face of the planet. There is even a 
section on the Novell website that contains user-submitted OSS.

Sandra.
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