Goodbye Novell

Ah...the memories!

[tangor]

The sale of former local-area networking powerhouse Novell to Attachmate has been completed.

The $2.2bn sale was first announced in November, and it ends the independent life of a once-dominant network operating system vendor. In later years, its original market snuffed out by Microsoft, the company had become the home of the SUSE Linux distribution, only to find its new market overtaken by the likes of Ubuntu.

[theregister.co.uk...]
Those were the daze... way back when!

[bakedjake]

My first encounter with Novell was NetWare 3.1 on a 10Base2 network.

Funny enough, I was going through some old stuff today and found a 10Base2 to 10BaseT transceiver. Reminds me of that old network!

I hated NetWare... ;-)

[tangor]

Sigh... I also miss TokenRing nics and... (whap! across forehead) The world continues to change. Ain't it grand?

[bakedjake]

Ain't it grand?

Yep. So much more to love these days, with 1000BaseT and PoE to eliminate cords, and no more phone company, and and and... :)

[J_RaD]

one of my early IT jobs i walked into was a novell network. I quickly converted everything over to an NT domain :-)

[rocknbil]

So I can finally tear up that Novell Administrator cert with no conscience. LOL . . .

[LifeinAsia]

Had a Novell network at one job. Pretty much the only reason for it was for corporate e-mail to/from the head office. I think we got 1 message every 2 months on average...

[incrediBILL]

I remember when I first got Novell with Windows 2, back then Windows and Novell didn't work together hardly at all. I did some inter-machine communicating DDE apps which rocked back then. You could chat with another terminal, send a report or graph, coolness for the 80s ;)

Then I moved on to email clients, Novell and LanMan, and lots of lies from MS in a farce called Win 3.0 and their laughable excuse of shaky networking.

Anyone ever write native Novell apps? oh gee...

[J_RaD]

So I can finally tear up that Novell Administrator cert with no conscience. LOL . . .

*gasp* that would be like me throwing away my old novell 5.1 disks

[scooterdude]

Everytime I use a firefox browser, or Safari, or opera or boot up open office on my windows XP, win 7 machines, I am reminded of the benefits of protecting less successful contenders from the success of the big winners.

I only used Novell briefly, and having to admin a mixed NT/novell environment was a nightmare possibility :)

yet I think we are a bit poorer for their departure,

[GaryK]

So I can finally tear up that Novell Administrator cert with no conscience. LOL . . .

Mine still have a place of honor on the wall of my office.

[johnhh]

I crashed a couple of Novell servers once - I think we called in Novell "masters" , they couldn't fix it either

[tangor]

I really liked Novell... then again I was an OS/2 and C/PM guy... always the bridesmade (sic) never the groom. :)