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"Paul Ayling" <mabm07@dial.pipex.com> wrote:


>Hi - Can anybody commment on this scenario:

>I've just upgraded my Windows 95 peer to peer network of 6 computers to
>Novell 3.12. Or rather my supplier has done so. That was about 4 weeks ago.
>All is going fine, but I found out only last Friday that NetWare 4.1 has
>been around for about 18 months. And its cheaper.

>Warning bells are beginning to sound. My supplier never told me there was
>an option. What's more, as we plan to get involved with the Internet, it
>seems that I would love to upgrade to IntraNetware - but can't.

>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.)

>Generally, can anybody see the rationale for a company new to the world of
>Novell networking starting off with 3.12 in September 1996?

>All comments would be very gratefully received.

>Paul Ayling
>Writing Machine, Winchester, Hants, UK

The world is changing. I don't like Win95 but I still work with it.
Netware 3.12 is much suitable for a small Lan but the price of 3.12
and 4.1 is same, at least in my place. I think Novell would add more
function to 4.1 but not 3.12 so we still have to learn more and more.
If you install a 3.12 OS to your company , your boss will ask you why
you install a old version. It is nothing to do with technical view. 

Wilson Wong