Re:There is still a lot of Novell out there.... (Score 1)

I work at that university in Providence that goes by the same name as UPS. (or is it the other way around??) We have a large eDir tree with over 18,000 users, 8 NetWare 6 servers and 2 NetWare 5.1 servers supporting some 400 GB of storage, 360+ printers and 2000+ concurrent user connections on just about every possible desktop OS you can imagine. This environment is almost entirely supported by one person: yours truly. Can you imagine my dismay when university management told me they wanted to migrate to Windows 2000/AD so that we can save money? I'm sure we will save a lot when we purchase all that hardware W2K needs. Security and patch maintenance will add up nicely, so we can save so much more there. Then you can start adding up all of the accessories we will need: 3rd party disk quota tools, security tools, GPO tools, etc. just to make it as manageable as NetWare. This will result in huge savings. I am hoping that someone here will pull their head out of that dark place and see the light: Novell has superb, award-winning solutions and the acquisition of Ximian and SuSE will compliment their suite of products and make them a force to be reckoned with.