Novell
September 1996
IntranetWare is Novell's comprehensive platform for a full-service intranet. Built on the foundation of Novell's industry-leading NetWareŽ 4 network services engine, IntranetWare provides both IP and IPX™ access to intranet resources such as Web servers, FTP servers and WAN connections to the Internet. IntranetWare lets you use your existing network infrastructure to make your networks do more for your business.
COMPETITIVE STRENGTHS
Builds on your current NetWare investment to provide a full-service intranet. IntranetWare is the only intranet solution that provides a complete intranet package--including the industry's fastest Intel-based Web server, seamless Internet connectivity, and the underlying network services that make your intranet secure, reliable and manageable. Most importantly, IntranetWare is the only intranet solution that lets you build on the investments of time, money and training you already have in your NetWare network. In contrast, Microsoft Windows NT Server requires you to rip out and replace your existing network infrastructure, and it doesn't provide the network services that a safe and manageable intranet demands.
Gives you more for your money. IntranetWare is the most cost-effective intranet solution to install, manage and operate. Its industry-leading performance and scalability mean you need substantially less hardware to support more users and applications. Novell Directory Services™ (NDS™) lowers administration costs by providing a single, graphical point of administration for the entire network. For these reasons and more, an International Data Corporation (IDC) study* recently found NetWare 4--the core of IntranetWare--to be up to 22 percent less expensive to own than Microsoft Windows NT Server.
Lets you take advantage of Novell's unparalleled channel of support, education and application development. More network professionals sell, support, develop and conform to Novell networks solutions than to any other network platform. More than 20,000 reseller partners worldwide sell Novell network solutions, and over 6,000 applications have been written for Novell networking platforms. More than 200,000 certified professionals support NetWare around the globe, with 125,000 candidates in the certification process. Approximately 5,000 certified professionals currently support Microsoft Windows NT.
FEATURE-BY-FEATURE COMPARISON
Full-service intranetware/Internet package. IntranetWare provides a complete intranetware/Internet solution: Web server, Internet connectivity, Netscape browser, IPX-to-IP gateway, multiprotocol routing, wide area connectivity and tools for creating intranet applications and as well as the core network services required by an intranet--directory, security, file, print, messaging and management. No other network solution provides a comparable package of intranet services.
Directory services. IntranetWare is the only intranet solution that provides true directory services. It's also the only intranet solution that provides directory-integrated Web services and Internet connectivity. Microsoft Windows NT Server includes domain services, a rudimentary naming service that requires complex trust relationships to provide only a small subset of the benefits that Novell Directory Services automatically and seamlessly provides. Unlike NDS, domain services are not designed to scale to the enterprise, cannot be extended and are not based on the X.500 directory standard.
Security. Through NDS, IntranetWare provides the industry's only hierarchical security management, allowing easy control of the security access of individuals, groups or the entire organization from a single administrative interface. This includes comprehensive Internet access control to restrict use of the Internet to authorized users. RSA public key/private key technology ensures that a password never crosses the network wire in an unecrypted format. IntranetWare is also the only intranet solution built for C2 "trusted network" security. Windows NT is C2 certified as a standalone workstation only--with no network adapter, floppy disk drive or modem installed--and not as a server operating system.
Web server. The NetWare Web Server™ included in IntranetWare is the only Web server in the industry that is integrated with a directory. This means you can search information in the NDS directory tree using any standard web browser, and you can easily publish directory information on your intranet or even on the Internet. According to Shiloh Consulting**, the NetWare Web Server is the fastest Intel-based web server available, beating out both Microsoft's and Netscape's Web servers.
File and print services. While other vendors promote file and print services as commodities, Novell continues the innovations that have made its file and print services the industry standard. File services in IntranetWare that Microsoft Windows NT Server doesn't provide include automatic file-by-file data compression, data migration, disk-space quotas for individual users, block suballocation for more efficient use of disk space and support for high-capacity storage systems. IntranetWare print services leverage NDS to provide users with transparent access to any printer on the network for which they have appropriate security privileges.
*Novell NetWare 4.1: Reducing Cost of Ownership, International Data Corporation, April 1996
**Performance Benchmark Tests of Novell, Microsoft and Netscape Web Servers Responding to HTML, CGI and Proprietary API Requests, Shiloh Consulting, March 1996
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