But Schacter warns that NetWare 5.1 is probably not going to turn a lot of heads at Unix or NT shops.
"We're in the storage business but have redefined it from mainframes to Unix and NT systems and increasingly to software, " says EMC Chief Executive Michael Ruettgers, 55.
With the overwhelming presence of the Windows platforms taking off, O'Reilly has added new titles such as The Whole Internet for Windows 95, Inside The Windows Registry and just recently a series of "Windows Annoyances" (ie Windows Annoyances, Office Annoyances, Word Annoyances) plus a complement to its UNIX series of NT books focusing on security and administration.
But he's also in the process of switching over 68 application servers from NT to Unix.
Overall, Hodges told LinuxWorldthat the NT and Unix versions were "very close" to being equivalent.
Observers also say there has been a perception that Net-Ware couldn't handle transactions as efficiently as Windows NT or Unix because it lacked pre-emptive processing.
Before, the company's Windows NT- and Unix-based data center and 100 users were at a separate Upper East Side site.
Moving from the NT server field to Unix, as Compaq intends to do, won't result in a mixed sales pitch from the company, Yeates said.
The new NT version of Sendmail, like its Unix counterpart, includes strong spam-blocking capabilities.
If users want to use Raw Iron database servers in place of SQL Server on NT, it isn't much different than using Unix or Linux underneath, he said.
In fact, the MTA that forms the core of Sendmail for NT is the same as the open source MTA currently used in Unix versions of the product.
The same clients who are purchasing NT-based servers for some client and application servers are sticking with Unix for business-critical applications, Yeates said.
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