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Eureka, IT WORKS !!!!

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by oz_media

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Just wanna blow my horn after a successful upgrade.
I just installed Netware Small Business Suite to connect and maintain two client offices.
groupwise 6.0, Neware 6.0, i-folder, Border Manager and Zenworks. The install was done COMPLETELY remotely to the first office and PUSHED to the second. i-Folders work slick as can be, Border Manager Authentication and firewall checks out as secured, GroupWise 6.0 with full collaboration and sticky notes working, ZenWorks tested to be effectively pushing software, imaging drives and customizing the desktops!!
It's freakin' unbelievable!!!
First try, first reboot, first copy and push, NO problems (knocking on wood now), No abends, NO patches, just seamless and secure VPN for both locations with complete remote maintenance controls. GET THIS ! Under $2000.00 for 45 users! (not a huge install but I have a strong feeling that the same would have worked for hundreds of stations) WOOHOO !!!

YAY NOVELL!! Talk about seamless integration, desktop administration, VPN and Email collaboration service, IM you name it! What a package, did I say for less than $2000.00 yet?

It uses two older Compaq ML370 servers (1 at each location) and runs so quick and smooth it's like poetry in motion. All from a single server each!

C'mon Microsnot, gimme your worst ! There's NO WAY any MS product or combination of products would be as cheap, as effective and trouble free as this if MS lasted another 500 years!

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by guruofdos

I today finished testing some scrap components components. I successfully got a whole batch of AMD XP 3200+ cpu's to clock at between 3.7 GHZ and 4.1GHz and run below 36 degrees centigrade for a period of 24 hours with NO BSOD in Windows 98SE.

Overclockers please note: I have carbon dioxide on tap in an industrial environment! Do NOT attempt this at home!

I have just obtained a (very expensive!) dual Socket A mobo capable of supporting 8Gb of 800MHz DDR ram with a multiplier up to 20x.

OK.....XP Pro with (multi-processor support), the best two cpu's from the test, 8Gb of RAM and an 8x AGP graphics card with 512Mb of ram and a 500MHz RAMDAC.

Why? To disprove that the new Apple G5 is the fastest personal computer ever...well, that's what they say on the UK commercials!

Well. It HAS been a slow week so far!

by oz_media

Did you wear a hard hat and steel toed boots ?

Kids, do not try this at home! (actually, do. Then call me to have your PC rebuilt!)

by lordinfidel

Except it's still novell. And now that network is all 1 vendor.

I'm just not a big fan of keeping everything under 1 flag.

I would of have kept the desktops and domain novell. But got rid of bordermanager and the vpn, opting for a free solution like linux and freeswan. No limit on the amount of users you can connect to the vpn.

Other then that.... it's always nice to have a good deployment. (As I get ready to deploy a new co-location facility, replacing our core production enviroment with this one, within the next 10 days)

by oz_media

Novell small Business Suite included all software for less than the GroupWise upgrade.

As for Novell, all they build is NOS, they do it well and reliably. Yes Linux is stable, but the Netware package works seamlessly together. Licencing is not a problem, the package provides more user licences than needed anyway.

by jimhm

Oz - watch out, the MS biggots will be flamming your door steps with flamming bags of dog poop... Because Novell worked so well -

DAH - Novell always was great the company just happened to play IBM - We are the Best and dumped on the users (As MS is doing today) ...

Novell will be back..

by zulj

With the on going battle between Linux and MS, Novell sneaks ahead and steals victory!

hehe.

by pgm554

I am just wondering if it would be possible to use NBO with SBS 6 to have a centralized site with the 2 Novell core boxes and run satellite offices on NBO.
From what I know of NBO and SBS, it sounds plausible, though it may violate the spirit of the user agreement

by oz_media

Old Hat or should I say Red Hat? With the Novell Ximian acquisition, things will definitely change for the better!

by pgm554

Well M$ has upped the anty on user licenses (Max of 75 on SBS 2003).The use of NBO appliances combined with a larger user count from Novell (100 would be nice) could make it a nice 1-2 punch for small businesses with satellite offices and no onsite support for backups and such.

Example : 1 central office with 4 remote sites with 15 or 20 users a piece could use this as a great way of having a centralized IT staff ,with no brainer remote computing using public DSL instead of a private WAN link.

Think of the mathematical possibilities...

by oz_media

"Think of the mathematical possibilities..."

Sorry it's Friday and my brain hurts. I don't think about mathematical possibilities, just reality.

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