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Dec 1998 - Consulting firm Giga Information Systems reports that upgrading from
NetWare 4.x to Windows NT 4.0 costs between 2 and 3 times as much as upgrading
to NetWare 5.0. NT's low performance requires at least twice as many servers,
and its poor reliability and lack of directory services dictates a lot more
(and higher paid) administrators.
On top of this, NT's notorious inability to feed high speed networks at
anything like their full potential means a more expensive and more difficult
to maintain network infrastructure (more subnets, more backbones, a lot more
administrators).
All this contrasts sharply to claims by Microsoft at its recent confab
for Novell Platinum resellers that "A single NT Server can replace as many as
5 NetWare servers".
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