Penguin
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NetWare - it used to be the only option for a file and print server if you had x86 hardware. Even when NT became available, people would scorn it in favour of NetWare's superiority.

Nowadays, things are a bit different. It's still superior in most large enterprise respects - it is stable, well documented, easy to manage, and scales like a trooper! Hardware support is dying off a bit though, and migration to those lovely "lock-in" applications like MS-SQL and MS-Exchange, coupled with the rise of Linux as a file and print server, is slowly squeezing NetWare out of the market it helped to create.

NetWare 6 though, it must be said, is LOVELY!

Stuff it can do (aka features):

  • eDirectory - this is an LDAP implementation on steroids. VERY well integrated, and easy to manage.
  • Now has a server based GUI - X based! ;)
  • More later...