The NetWare Advantage

Snap Shot

May 2000

Novell®

• Novell supports mixed networks and manages those mixed environments better than anyone else.
• NetWare 5.1 is designed and optimized to run networks, manage networking services including application servers such as including NetWare, Windows NT, UNIX and other host systems.
• NetWare 5 is less expensive to manage and administer than Windows NT or Windows 2000, based on the directory-enabled management approach to server, services and desktop administration.
• Novell Directory Services™ (NDS™) is market proven, with over 70 million users and years of real-world experience.
• NetWare 5.1 is based on open standards including a pure implementation of IP.
• NetWare 5.1 integrates the fastest Java execution environment, a quick development environment and the next generation of Internet-based distributed applications.
• NetWare 5.1 includes the world's leading database, Oracle8 providing single sign-on and centralized management.
• NetWare 5.1 includes web development tolls with IBM WebSphere
• NetWare 5.1 has enhanced and proven security services
• Novell is currently shipping products that provide real and tangible business benefits to customers that cannot wait to grow.

Microsoft

• Microsoft's philosophy on reducing the cost of owning a network is to rip out existing mixed environments and replace with homogeneous Microsoft solutions at whatever cost.
• Windows NT and Windows 2000 were developed as a general-purpose or multi-purpose operating system for both desktops and servers.
• Windows 2000 does not provide a cross-platform directory or management infrastructure.
• Windows 2000 offers a directory, but ties it to the legacy of domains and group management, offering little of the true directory benefits obtained with NDS.
• Microsoft networks require larger IS budgets and staffing to accommodate the increased cost of managing multiple domains, and additional hardware, and immature technology.
• Windows 2000 requires significant dependency on DNS implementations that could be difficult to change.
• Microsoft is not committed to Java and ships a Java execution environment that is not 100% Java certified.
• Microsoft continues to promise functionality that Novell is currently shipping in order to freeze the market and force server and workstation upgrades regardless of the actual cost to customers.

Copyright 2000