Re: Agreed - I don't trust them, hate their stuuf and don't use any of it
"Then along came Novell Netware which just ran and ran, didn't need rebooting every day and didn't crash"
My mercifully brief experience of Netware was the converse. IIRC the OS and <all> the services ran as a single process. An attempt to shut down a database brought the whole thing down in a heap. Novell was the server OS for MS clients until MS developed theirs.
Neither, of course, had anything like the reliability of Unix servers. That's the time of the apocryphal tale of a Unix server which suddenly disappeared from the LAN. On investigation it was found to have been turned off. Further investigation brought the response "Nobody ever came to reboot it so we assumed it wasn't being used.".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
