Hello edemel!
In a message edemel wrote to All:
 e> In the next 8-10 months we are going to install a Wide Area Network
 e> covering the US, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo and Mexico.  We are having
 e> trouble deciding in using Novell or MS NT in our servers.
You are not alone. Companies all over the world are facing the same decisions 
every day.
 e> We have heard that Novell is easier to install and maintain than NT,
Novell is generally easier and cheaper to maintain. However, it is not 
necessarily easier to install. That depends on your experience.
 e> but it is also running behind in terms of being the best solution for
 e> the future.
Not true. NetWare 5 will be released this summer. Beta 3 was made public 
about 10 days ago and can be ordered from any Novell office. NetWare 5 has 
several major changes and improvements over previous versions:
1. NetWare 5 has a Graphic User Interface
2. NetWare 5 is built around a "Virtual Java Machine" which allows for an 
easy way of running applications on a server. The VJM is faster than any 
other in the industry.
3. NetWare 5 offers a choice of using the IPX/SPX protocol or pure IP. This 
is important because Windows NT does NOT use pure IP. What is called "native 
IP" in Windows NT is "NetBIOS encapsulated IP" which makes it necessary to 
setup WINS servers and other additional items. The NT IP protocol is 
essentially no different than using NetWare 4.x IP/IPX gateway.
4. NetWare 5 comes bundled with Oracle 8, a fully featured Netscape (Novonyx) 
webserver and number of other goodies.
5. NetWare 5 supports "Orion", Novell's new clustering solution which allows 
a 16 server cluster, compared with Microsoft's two server solution.
6. Novell has already delivered on it's Directory Services Solution (NDS). 
NDS is available for Novell, NT and soon for Unix and IBM Operating Systems.
Novell has also announced that it has started a strategic partnership with 
Intel developing 64-bit code for Intel's new line of processors due out in 
1999. Compare this to a recent Gardner Group Study which finds that Windows 
NT v5 will not be ready for enterprise implementation until late in the year 
2000.
(That is not the release date, but the date that they consider the product 
sufficiently bug-free for implementation).
 e> We are also doing a research on the software we're going to use for
 e> our Enterprise Resource Planning.  We have looked into Geac's
 e> Smartstream, Oracle's Oracle Applications, and SAP America's SAP R/3.
 e> Of these we have decided in either Oracle Applications or SAP R/3, but
 e> the information I have read about these over the internet has not
 e> given me a clue of which one is the best.  We are looking for ease of
 e> implementation, maintenance, inter operability (between the modules
 e> and third party applications if necessary), upgradeability and as a
 e> must of being user friendly. I will greatly appreciate any information
 e> or reference you can give me to help me push this project forward.
Both Oracle and SAP make an excellent product. I suggest you look at a demo 
version of NetWare 5, which comes bundled with Oracle. It might make the 
choice easier.
-=David=-
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