[Chester LUG] Is it me or is Vista rather poor?

[Simon Willett]

Depends on your perspective. 

 

It depends if you were managing 1 server and 50 odd users.

Or if you were managing 20 servers with 1000s of users. 

 

I agree that you need a directory service when you are managing lots of
servers / users. 

 

I just think that it is interesting that Novell misjudged the market
then, and I hope that MS have misjudged the market now.

Step forward LINUX

 

 

 

 

 

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From: chester-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:chester-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Stuart Burns
Sent: 20 March 2007 14:14
To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Chester LUG] Is it me or is Vista rather poor?

 

Thing is NDS was actually a step forward, not "new shiney shiney"
rebadge of current os lol

On 20/03/07, Simon Willett < simonw at eurowrap.co.uk
<mailto:simonw at eurowrap.co.uk> > wrote:

Actually Novell did something very similar to this in the 1990's. 

Novell were the market leader in the server file and print market. They
released Netware 4 with a new feature NDS, which nobody wanted.
It required users (in this case sysadmins) to learn a whole new set of
skills.
The documentation was shipped on CD instead of in book form (big change
back then), and nobody could be bothered to learn the new skills.

People switched to NT because they saw it as a direct replacement for 
Netware, and Novell lost market share.




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