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Paul Ayling wrote:
> 
> My supplier tells me that they didn't recommend 4.1 because the server
> hardware they had pigeonholed for the task (an old 66Mhz 486) wasn't up to
> the job. Yet according to Novell's web site, this isn't true. For the
> record, it is a
> 486/66 with 32Mb RAM, and sports a mirrored pair of 2GB SCSI hard disk
> drives. (Comments here would be especially welcome.)

A 66/486 with 32mb RAM is ok.   We had a 33/486 with 32mb RAM with a 150
users on it.
But, we have a EISA motherboard.    Anotherwords, your 'pipe' counts big
time.
(Now, upgraded to Proliant 4500r, because we kept running out of
diskspace.)

But, with 4.10, Compression and sub-block allocation do use CPU
horsepower.  
Depending your user habits, you may be fine.  (or well, just don't
enable compression on it)

4.10's admin tools are GUI based.  You can use them just fine under
Windows95.  Our selves, use Client32 network drivers.

But... the LIST 'upgrade' prices are:
  Upgrade Product                License                       Price
    From any NetWare 2, 3 or 4.x   5 to 5 user upgrade             $495
    From any NetWare 2, 3 or 4.x   10 to 10 user upgrade           $895
    From any NetWare 2, 3 or 4.x   25 to 25 user upgrade         $1,495
    From any NetWare 2, 3 or 4.x   50 to 50 user upgrade         $1,995

if you were at 4.x, then:
  Upgrade Product           License                Special Price
    From any NetWare 4.x      5 to 5 user upgrade            $395
    From any NetWare 4.x      10 to 10 user upgrade          $595
    From any NetWare 4.x      25 to 25 user upgrade          $695
    From any NetWare 4.x      50 to 50 user upgrade          $995

Also... this is for IntraNetWare.   They threw in a bunch of stuff.
Which some of it may apply to you.



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