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As a consultant i am often comfronted with similar problems by my clients,
i have to take into mind further developments and weigh them up against
company functionality. True Netware 4x is in my my opinion a far better
system than 3.12 however as a end user you can get more support from  other
companys that cannot support 4.x. There is also the fact that most
applications that run on a Novell system are not NDS aware and therefore
you could in effect have a inoporational system . My advice is to ask the
company why they didnt install 4.x and ask for it a plain termonology. PS
when you get to understand netware 4.x NDS it rocks

Wilson Wong <wilsonw@hkstar.net> wrote in article
<55f6k0$bi5@capella.hkstar.com>...
> "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
> 
>