NT 3.51 was released in May 1995 [1]. Netware 4 was released in 1993. Netware 4's big feature was NDS, a scalable directory service with an LDAP interface. Wind

NT 3.51 was released in May 1995 [1]. Netware 4 was released in 1993. Netware 4's big feature was NDS, a scalable directory service with an LDAP interface. Windows got that feature in 2000. Meanwhile Novell released IntranetWare with TCP/IP support in 1996 and Netware 5 in 1998 [2]. Netware 5 had hierarchical storage management; support for Java, Perl, and JavaScript; and memory protection [3]. I was pretty young then and not much of a programmer, but it certainly seemed to me then that Novell's problems were more about business operations than about any lack of technological progress. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.51 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.51 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell_NetWare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell_NetWare [3] http://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/dnd19980703.html http://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/dnd19980703.ht...