OMFG, that was a long, slightly PTSD-inflected trip down Memory Lane. I was actually deep enough into Netware administration to get certified in v.4 in 1996, and my employer at the time was...
OMFG, that was a long, slightly PTSD-inflected trip down Memory Lane. I was actually deep enough into Netware administration to get certified in v.4 in 1996, and my employer at the time was running Lotus cc:Mail on it. The printing, disk storage, memory, and permissions issues had us all hopping, and coming in at 2 a.m. on a regular basis.
OTOH, when Y2K rolled around, I was working in a large university hospital system, and we had to hunt down various devices picked up by network scan. Lo and behold, we discovered an unattended Netware v.3.1 server which hadn't been touched or rebooted in seven years. As far as the tiny departmental group using it was concerned, it was still the perfect solution for their needs, and they didn't want it patched or otherwise interfered with.
Having used Windows NT though a couple of versions by that point, I have to agree with the article that TCP/IP, granular directory management and other attention to the administrators' needs won the day.
OMFG, that was a long, slightly PTSD-inflected trip down Memory Lane. I was actually deep enough into Netware administration to get certified in v.4 in 1996, and my employer at the time was running Lotus cc:Mail on it. The printing, disk storage, memory, and permissions issues had us all hopping, and coming in at 2 a.m. on a regular basis.
OTOH, when Y2K rolled around, I was working in a large university hospital system, and we had to hunt down various devices picked up by network scan. Lo and behold, we discovered an unattended Netware v.3.1 server which hadn't been touched or rebooted in seven years. As far as the tiny departmental group using it was concerned, it was still the perfect solution for their needs, and they didn't want it patched or otherwise interfered with.
Having used Windows NT though a couple of versions by that point, I have to agree with the article that TCP/IP, granular directory management and other attention to the administrators' needs won the day.