oliveau@valhalla.cs.ucla.edu (05/22/89)
It's pretty hard to get straight answers from LAN vendors, so I thought this group might help. What are the relative merits of Banyan and Novell? What are the good and bad points of each? My company's needs are to connect 16+ 386 machines (PS/2 and others) together for FAST data transfer. A central file server is not really desired, but the ability to "login" to another person's computer and grab or send data from/to it are important. All of the other standard LAN exuses (printer sharing, etc) are there too. Most vendors give examples of their nets in document-type environments, but not in major software development environments (like mine). We also want to get our customers (airlines) hooked up somehow - I know Banyan has a global naming scheme, but is that really that important? Please send replies to the newsgroup, or to me directly. Or call me at (213) 820-4616 x7788. Thanks in advance, Greg.
ciriello@lafcol.UUCP (Patrick Ciriello II) (05/23/89)
In article <24145@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, oliveau@valhalla.cs.ucla.edu writes: > It's pretty hard to get straight answers from LAN vendors, so I thought > this group might help. What are the relative merits of Banyan and > Novell? What are the good and bad points of each? > Please send replies to the newsgroup, or to me directly. Or call > me at (213) 820-4616 x7788. > This month's PC-World had a very good analysis of the Major LAN packages, including Novell, Banyan, IBM, and a few others. Based on the size of you network, you probably don't need VINES .. Novell or 3+Open should do fine. Check out the article .. it is very good. Pat Ciriello II (Network Administrator, Lafayette College)