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OMG brings to mind the competing tech: Processor Independent Netware that was to run on Intel, PPC, MIPS, Alpha, SPARC and PA-RISC. I'm lucky that clusterfuck

• lproven 4y ago
  That's a product which seems to have dropped off the World Wide Web. I remember seeing a demonstration of it running on PowerPC at a trade show, but that's the only time I ever saw it running. Most webpages that mention it today just redirect to a definition of the word "pin". It's a bit of a shame -- it was a clever idea, but I think that Novell overestimated the desirability of Netware to corporate clients at that point in time. As a Netware admin at the time, I think the real killer opportunity that Novell missed was Netware for OS/2. That gave them a real nondedicated Netware 4 server using early 1990s technology, which could've been a web server or an email server or whatever you needed using OS/2 binaries in the background alongside the industry beating performance of Netware at that time, but instead Novell decided to go it alone and wasted a huge amount of time and effort on making Netware 5 and 6 into products capable of running their own native binaries meaning that they re-implemented half of UNIX into what had been a tiny, sleek, dedicated file and print server.
• yuhong 3y ago
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