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- From: tdphette@mke.ab.com (Thad Phetteplace x4461)
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: PC/NFS vs Netware (and Vines, and ...)
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:37:16 GMT
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- marquis@netcom.com (Roger Marquis) writes:
- :
- : Any reasonable comparison of PC networkOSs wouldn't be complete
- : without looking at Banyan Vines as well as Novell and PC/NFS. I migrated
- : a large department (100 nodes) from PC/NFS to Vines in about 2 weeks and
- : found that administration time was about 1/8th what it had been. Vines
- : global naming (StreeTalk) makes managing 100s of users easy. Novell is
- : excellent for fewer than 3 servers or 200 users. Any large network
- : though is much easier to manage under Vines than anything else on the
- : market. This is verified in a study by the BRG (Business Research Group)
- : which looked at Banyan, Novell, LAN Manager and Pathworks. They found
- : Vines networks need fewer administrators per user by a good margin.
- : I manage both Sun and Vines networks (the 2 best, IMHO) and find each has
- : its roll. I also find that I have much less downtime and more
- : functionality (email especially) than my friends who manage Netware,
- : PC/NFS, AIX and especially Mac networks.
- :
- : Roger (marquis@netcom.com)
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- I'll second that oppinion. We are in the process of putting a Banyan
- network in place here at Allen-Bradley. I find it much easier to deal
- with then PC/NFS or Novel.
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- Thad Phetteplace
- Network Systems Analyst, Allen-Bradley Co.
- Phone: (414)382-4461
- Email: tdphette@mke.ab.com
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- The opinions expressed here are entirely my own and not that of my employer.
- I am not a slob, I am simply doing an experiment in domestic entropy!
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