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- From: scoggin@opus.ee.udel.edu (John K Scoggin)
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: PC/NFS vs Netware (and Vines, and ...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.152717.23621@udel.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:27:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.042713.10549@netcom.com> 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)
-
- I will second that! We have a medium-sized VINES network of about 900 users.
- It takes relatively little administration - moving services (disk, print, etc)
- from server-to-server is easy, and the users are none the wiser. Connectivity
- options abound. If you like SCO Unix (have to admit, I'm lukewarm on it),
- you can run VINES on a SCO system. I'm just installing a test system with
- this configuration now.
-
- - John
-
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