NetWare isnt the sort of software thats going to find its way onto your home computer--ever.
Analysts say Novell historically has not provided customers with enough tools to develop a wide range of NetWare applications.
At present nearly two-thirds of Novell's sales come from its imperilled Netware franchise.
But Schacter warns that NetWare 5.1 is probably not going to turn a lot of heads at Unix or NT shops.
Novell is expected to ship NetWare 5.1 in the first quarter at the same price as NetWare 3, 4 and 5.
Moores also advised Pulaski to raise prices, a risky tactic since BindView often competes against free features in NT or Novell's NetWare.
The key to NetWare 5 is its greater support for Internet applications.
Schmidt is facing Bill Gates, a master of the game, and he is responding to the NetWare 5 threat with a classic defense.
But the key to NetWare 5--and the thing that makes it especially attractive to corporate IT types--is its greater support for Internet applications.
Users - even those unimpressed by previous Novell application server attempts - are anxious to give the revised edition of NetWare a try.
International Data Corp. analyst Al Gillen says NetWare 5.1 might be just the thing to keep NetWare customers from moving to NT or Linux.
"Typically, you don't think of NetWare and application servers in the same space, " says Todd Chipman, an analyst with Giga Information Group in Cambridge, Mass.
However, Bill Burson, the organization's assistant director of IT, says he'll install NetWare 5.1 as soon as it's available and use WebSphere for application development.
Is this a product that doesn't require a trained NetWare administrator?
NetWare 5.1 will gain support for this technology, which will allow applications to be pre-empted and prioritized, says Brian Faustyn, director of product marketing at Novell.
It makes and supports an industrial-strength operating system called NetWare.
's NetWare operating system functions and how it stores data.
In other words, if you want to use the web to sell widgets to the masses or to tie together far-flung corporate outposts, NetWare 5 should make your job somewhat easier.
They know that weighing in at a reported 35 million-plus lines of code (NetWare 5 has about 10 million lines), Windows NT 5.0 is likely to be late, unwieldy and buggy.
Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta was using Novell's initial NetWare Web Server, which ran as a NetWare Loadable Module (NLM), but the company replaced the Novell software with Netscape Enterprise Server.
Products include GroupWise, Netware and Open Enterprise Server.
"We think all the Web pages need to be generated from an application server that end users can access and that is tied to back-end databases, " says Burson, who believes NetWare 5.1 will address this issue.
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