From: Adam 

Don Hills wrote:
> In article , "Geo"  wrote:
>> Microsoft used to be the good guys, today, I wouldn't use anything MS if I
>> have a halfway decent second choice. Too expensive, too restrictive, too
>> risky due to copy protection/activation.
>
> No, they were never the good guys. Novell was a competitor with a
> majority market share so Microsoft used every dirty trick in the
> book, including predatory pricing, to unhook Novell's customers.
> IBM used to sell and support Netware at one time, and I recall several
> competitive analysis briefings where Microsoft's strategy was discussed.
>
They do again however it's now the Suse Linux + Novell network control
stuff. Allows you to even take a mainframe & use it as a novell
controller.

(We were given a talk wrt the NHS adopting Novell Linux).

Adam

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