![]() ![]() NetWare 3 started the trend towards a loosely coupled set of services but was still tightly integrated into the NetWare Kernel. ![]() Up until NetWare 3, NetWare was essentially a single image NOS and required the OS to be “compiled” to include all the services (what few there were) the customer wanted to deploy. Until a suitable replacement “kernel” was available, Novell recognized the need to stay put. Now before everyone piles on and tells me that we did have NetWare on Windows and NetWare on IBM, let’s just deal with that now – is anyone running those today? … Exactly! And that makes my point. ![]() The key is that to meet our own expectations, we could never be as comfortable putting those services on someone else’s platform (could you imagine depending on a Windows Server to provide the same level of performance as NetWare?). Yes, the NetWare Kernel was and is an immensely powerful, efficient and stable platform to run these services on, but that’s just it, the NetWare Kernel is just a platform. Virtually all individuals and companies that value NetWare, value NetWare Services. But, there is a fundamental difference between NetWare and NetWare Services. For the longest time, customers, partners and many Novell-ians have ubiquitously viewed NetWare as a monolithic Network Operating System – and for earlier versions of NetWare, they were all right.
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