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And back before Ethernet and TCP/IP became dominate, one company made a lot of money by being able to accommodate and integrate all those differing networks; communicate, share files and print services from a heterogeneous mix of machines and networks: Novell.

And before someone comes along and tells of how Novell was killed off by Microsoft, as a former Novell Master CNE (since 1989) and Master CNI (instructor), I can say without a doubt that Novell killed off Novell's market share. Great technology, but their marketing deparment couldn't figure out how to sell space heaters to eskimos!

My favorite example was when Novell bought UNIX... They actually positioned it AS A COMPETITOR to Novell's NetWare servers!

Mark

Yea, I know. I was a CNE too, been working with the stuff since 85. My first cert was actually signed (not stamped) by Ray himself.

The thing is: They actually did some good things for UNIX. Too bad they couldn't do anything with it. Now if Novell could have had MS' marketing, and MS could have had Novell's engineering...

I do like what they've been doing with Linux. SUSE is a great distro IMHO.