>I know companies that have had Novell servers running for 10 years or more with no problems. The problems tend to come into play when you start seriously managing desktops with them in conjunction with Windows. Conflicts start to appear...
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I had to administer Netware 3.x servers. They didn't have problems until you changed *anything* - then it was abend, try different NLMs, abend, ... until eventually you had something that appeared stable.