>I've never had a problem with either, since I write my own API access stuff anyway. The question arose for someone who has been using NetWare and is now migrating the network away from NetWare to NT (IOW, there will be 0 NetWare boxes involved), a move that I do not feel is a mistake in any case.

Perhaps a small misunderstanding....only 1 AREA is migrating. That area still has to interface with Novell (that would be the rest of the Health Department).