aag@myrias.UUCP (Anne Aitken Gaudet) (02/16/88)
Presently our company is looking at purchasing Novell Netware. We presently have ethernet running TCP/IP. So we are very interested in the TCP/IP option. Local salespeople do not seem to be too knowledgable on the subject. 1)The latest I have heard is that the TCP/IP option is not included with Netware, that it is an add on option? From what I have read on the net that does not seem to be the case. There seems to be alot of confusion amungst all re: what versions provide what features, and which software will and will not run on the Netware (Oracle for one)arrggh! 2)Will Netware support Kermit ? I really wish that PC-NFS supported Netbios. It would really would solve alot of our PC problems.
Stayton_Skip_Addison@cup.portal.com (02/28/88)
NetWare TCP/IP implementations are available from Excelan, Micom-InterLAN, and the Wollongong group (no specific ordering intended). Novell does not itself distribute TCP/IP. The reason for the confusion was that Novell WAS investigating the possibility of distributing a TCP/IP implementation, but decided to drop it. TCP/IP is available either as a gateway implementation (IPX/SPX on one side of the gateway, TCP/IP on the other) or with each workstation using both protocols simultaneously. Novell fully supports and encourages both types of implementation under its Open Protocol Technology (OPT) strategy. (How's that for a marketing statement?) I'd give you phone numbers for the companies, but I don't have them handy. -- Skip Addison, Sr. Product Manager, Novell Communications <Stayton_Skip_Addison@cup.portal.com> Note: No disclaimer.