Re: Novell Y2K Ferret actually Y2K Weasel?

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From: Tim Gowen
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:00

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The Ferret is okay but not fantastic.  Using the information for
marketing purposes is a little bit cheeky, I admit, but I don't have a
major problem with it.  The problem is that Novell's information is not
particularly useful: it will only let you know if your Novell NLMs and
so on are compliant; with ArcServe or Innoculan it just tells you to go
to the third party and find out there.

So basically there's no point to it.  All the info related to Netware
and Y2K is available on their website.  If you have several servers and
they're not completely identical then it's handy for spotting those
little differences which might otherwise get overlooked, but otherwise I
was distinctly lukewarm about the whole thing.  The results come in PDF
format, which was nice.


        Tim

-- 
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From: Tim Gowen <tim@nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Novell Y2K Ferret actually Y2K Weasel?
Date: 1999/06/12
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